Dormant Definition

dôrmənt
adjective
Sleeping.
Webster's New World
As if asleep; quiet; still.
Webster's New World
Present but not active or manifest though capable of becoming so.
American Heritage
Inoperative; inactive.
Webster's New World
Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes.
A dormant bud; a dormant bacterium.
American Heritage Medicine
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Being in an inactive state during which growth and development cease and metabolism is slowed, usually in response to an adverse environment. In winter, some plants survive as dormant seeds or bulbs, and some animals enter the dormant state of hibernation.
American Heritage Science
Not active but capable of renewed activity. Volcanoes that have erupted within historical times and are expected to erupt again are dormant.
American Heritage Science

Origin of Dormant

  • Middle English from Old French from present participle of dormir to sleep from Latin dormīre

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“I sleep”).

    From Wiktionary

Dormant Sentence Examples

  • They are cut to the last dormant bud in winter.

  • In the winter it covers the orifice of this burrow with a layer of silk, and lies dormant underground until the return of spring.

  • The developing seed thus encloses fungal hyphae, which remain dormant within the seed and in spring develop symbiotically with the growth of the wheat plant, doing no apparent injury until the time of fruiting is reached, when the fungus takes complete possession and fills the new seed with a mass of darkcoloured spores.

  • In Owen's Valley is a fine group of extinct or dormant volcanoes.

  • A lesson in geometry, given by Ostilio Ricci to the pages of the grand-ducal court, chanced, tradition avers, to have Galileo for an unseen listener; his attention was riveted, his dormant genius was roused, and he threw all his energies into the new pursuit thus unexpectedly presented to him.

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Words Starting With

DDODOR

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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dormant

Words Starting With D and Ending With T

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With D7 Letter Words Ending With T
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