Synonyms for dormant
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
Example sentences
- inactive This volcano has been inactive for hundreds of years.
- latent There are many latent gays among rampant homophobes.
- quiescent His normally quiescent demeanor hid a storm of ideas beneath the surface.
- torpid When it gets cold, the turtles become torpid.
By length
- 4 letters
- dull1, idle2
- 5 letters
- quiet2, inert2
- 6 letters
- silent2, asleep2, sleepy2, latent2, fallow2, torpid2, sedent
- 7 letters
- passive2, languid2, abeyant
- 8 letters
- sleeping2, inactive3, unactive
- 9 letters
- suspended3, sedentary4, lethargic3, quiescent3, unexerted
- 10 letters
- unoccupied4, slumbering3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idle2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
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