dormant.
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
Meaning & usage
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
a lion dormant
Leaning.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“to sleep”).
A crossbeam or joist.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“to sleep”).
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