[syn: abeyant, dormant]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dormant
adj 1: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
"dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"
[syn: dormant, hibernating(a), torpid]
2: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant
volcano" [syn: dormant, inactive] [ant: active]
3: lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip),
sleeping]
4: inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of
affection are dormant but easily awakened" [syn: abeyant,
dormant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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