Dormant - English meaning

adjective

In a state of sleep.

Usage examples:

She had been asleep for over three hours

adjective

Sleeping or not awake

Usage examples:

I fell asleep (= began to sleep) while watching television., i didn’t hear the phone – i was fast/s…

adjective

Relating to or in a state of coma.

Usage examples:

She had been comatose for seven months

adjective

(of a person) unconscious and not able to wake up, usually because of illness or injury

Usage examples:

The traffic accident left him comatose with massive brain damage.

verb

Be half asleep; doze intermittently.

Usage examples:

He was beginning to drowse in his chair

noun

A light sleep; a condition of being half asleep.

Usage examples:

She awoke from a light drowse

adjective

(of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production.

Usage examples:

Incentives for farmers to let land lie fallow

noun

A piece of fallow land.

Usage examples:

A great estate was usually divided between fallows, grazed stubble, and wheat

verb

Leave (land) fallow for a period.

Usage examples:

Fallow the ground for a week or so after digging

adjective

Not moving; motionless.

Usage examples:

She sat immobile for a long time

adjective

Not moving, or not able to move or be moved

Usage examples:

He is in a cast to keep his spine immobile., the brace immobilized my elbow while the injury healed.

adjective

Not engaging in or involving any or much physical activity.

Usage examples:

An inactive lifestyle

adjective

Doing nothing

Usage examples:

Knee surgery will keep him physically inactive for two months., about half of the club members are …

adjective

Doing nothing or not doing what you have usually done

Usage examples:

An inactive member of an advisory board, voters who have not participated in an election in three y…

adjective

Lacking the ability or strength to move.

Usage examples:

She lay inert in her bed

adjective

Not moving or not able to move

Usage examples:

The inert figure of a man lay in the front of the car., an inert gas

adjective

Not working or taking effect.

Usage examples:

The act may be rendered inoperative

adjective

If a law or rule is inoperative, it does not have any effect and cannot be used

Usage examples:

Legislation to repeal inoperative provisions in the tax law was approved., make/render sth inoperat…

adjective

(of a quality or state) existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden or concealed.

Usage examples:

They have a huge reserve of latent talent

adjective

Present, but not yet active, developed, or obvious

Usage examples:

Latent ethnic tensions exploded into the open yesterday.

adjective

Present, but not yet active, developed, or obvious

Usage examples:

Latent capability/talent/skill

adjective

Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic.

Usage examples:

I felt tired and a little lethargic

adjective

Lacking in energy; feeling unwilling or unable to do anything

adjective

Not moving; stationary.

Usage examples:

An eagle hung almost motionless close to the ground

adjective

Not moving

Usage examples:

He looks made of stone, utterly motionless (= completely without movement).

adjective

Without moving

Usage examples:

The horse lay motionless on the ground, as if dead.

adjective

Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.

Usage examples:

The women were portrayed as passive victims

noun

Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them ).

Lacking in energy or will

adjective

In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy.

Usage examples:

Strikes were headed by groups of workers who had previously been quiescent

verb

Be situated or kept in a particular place.

Usage examples:

The diamond now reposes in the louvre

verb

Place something, especially one's confidence or trust, in.

Usage examples:

We have never betrayed the trust that you have reposed in us

noun

A state of rest, sleep, or tranquillity.

Usage examples:

in repose her face looked relaxed

verb

Cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength.

Usage examples:

He needed to rest after the feverish activity

verb

Remain or be left in a specified condition.

Usage examples:

You can rest assured she will do everything she can

noun

An instance or period of resting.

Usage examples:

You look as though you need a rest

noun

The fact, state, or condition of being asleep.

Usage examples:

It was 30 degrees at 1 a.m. a few weeks ago and sleeping was near impossible

adjective

In a state of sleep.

Usage examples:

He looked at the sleeping child

verb

Be in a state of sleep; be asleep.

Usage examples:

She slept for half an hour

adjective

Slow-moving or inactive.

Usage examples:

A sluggish stream

verb

Sleep.

Usage examples:

Sleeping beauty slumbered in her forest castle

noun

A sleep.

Usage examples:

Scaring folk from their slumbers

verb

Present participle of slumber

adjective

(of a body of water or the atmosphere of a confined space) having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.

Usage examples:

A stagnant ditch

adjective

(of a person) lying face upwards.

Usage examples:

A supine man is roughly dragged off like a carcass.

noun

A latin verbal noun used only in the accusative and ablative cases, especially to denote purpose (e.g. mirabile dictu ‘wonderful to relate’).

adjective

(lying) flat on your back, looking up

Usage examples:

We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun., the new director has…

adjective

Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

Usage examples:

We sat around in a torpid state

plural noun

(at oxford university) a series of races for eight-oared rowing boats held in hilary term.

Usage examples:

In my first year i rowed in torpids

adjective

Not active; moving or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep

Usage examples:

If you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at 20,000 feet, passengers will become torpid and then …