Definify.com

Webster 1828 Edition

Dormant

DORMANT

,
Adj.
[L., to sleep.]
1.
Sleeping; hence, at rest; not in action; as dormant passions.
2.
Being in a sleeping posture; as the lion dormant, in heraldry.
3.
Neglected; not used; as a dormant title; dormant privileges.
4.
Concealed; not divulged; private. [Unusual.]
5.
Leaning; inclining; not perpendicular; as a dormant window, supposed to be so called form a beam of that name. This is now written dormer or dormar.

DORMANT

,
Noun.
A beam; a sleeper.

Definition 2024

dormant

dormant

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

dormant ‎(not comparable)

  1. 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.
    This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
    • Burke
      It is by lying dormant a long time, or being […] very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
  2. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
    a lion dormant

Related terms

Antonyms

Translations

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔʁ.mɑ̃/

Adjective

dormant m ‎(feminine singular dormante, masculine plural dormants, feminine plural dormantes)

  1. dormant
  2. asleep

Verb

dormant

  1. present participle of dormir

Anagrams

Norman

Verb

dormant

  1. present participle of dormi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Similar Results