Dormant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dormant \Dor"mant\, n. [See {Dormant}, a.] (Arch.)
     A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of
     the other timbers rest or " sleep." --Arch. Pub. Soc. --
     Called also {dormant tree}, {dorman tree}, {dormond}, and
     {dormer}. --Halliwell. Dormer



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dormant
       adj 1: of e.g. volcanos; temporarily inactive; "a dormant volcano"
              [syn: {inactive}] [ant: {extinct}, {active}]
       2: lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: {dormant(ip)},
          {sleeping}]
       3: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
          "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn:
           {hibernating(a)}, {torpid}]
       4: not active but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of
          affection are dormant but easily awakened"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "dormant":
     abeyant, apathetic, asleep, at rest, benumbed, between the lines,
     blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, concealed,
     contemplative, covert, cryptic, dead, dead asleep, debilitated,
     deep asleep, delitescent, do-nothing, dopey, droopy, drugged, dull,
     enervated, esoteric, exanimate, fast asleep, flaked-out, flat,
     foul, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, hibernating, hidden, idle,
     immobile, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inert,
     jaded, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid,
     languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy,
     lumpish, lurking, meditative, moribund, motionless, muffled,
     mystic, neuter, neutral, numb, obfuscated, oblivious, obscured,
     occult, out, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, pooped,
     possible, potential, procrastinating, quiescent, quiet, quietist,
     quietistic, resting, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy,
     slow, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, somnolent,
     sound asleep, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, static,
     stationary, still, stultified, submerged, supine, suspended, tame,
     torpid, unaroused, unconscious, under the surface, underlying,
     undisclosed, unexpressed, unmanifested, unmoving, unrevealed,
     vegetable, vegetative, veiled, virtual, wan, weary, world-weary