Definitions for dormant

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dormant dor·mant

Spelling: [dawr-muh nt]

IPA: /ˈdɔr mənt/

Dormant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in dormant (admnort).

Definitions for dormant

adjective

1. lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid:
2. in a state of rest or inactivity; inoperative; in abeyance:
3. Biology. in a state of minimal metabolic activity with cessation of growth, either as a reaction to adverse conditions or as part of an organism's normal annual rhythm.
4. undisclosed; unasserted:
5. (of a volcano) not erupting.
6. Botany. temporarily inactive:
7. (of a pesticide) applied to a plant during a period of dormancy:
8. Heraldry. (of an animal) represented as lying with its head on its forepaws, as if asleep.

Origin of dormant

1350-1400; Middle English dorma(u)nt Anglo-French, present participle of dormir Latin dormīre to sleep; see -ant

Examples for dormant

He meant to have no mercy on her until he had roused her dormant caution.

However, the company could simply file ‘dormant’ accounts that reveal nothing, according to a tax specialist quoted in The Times.

Is there an innate, yet dormant capacity within the elderly to actually reverse their ailments if only given the right signals?

Pray give her some stimulant to arouse her dormant faculties, if only for a moment.

Perhaps you reply that the soul is there, but in a dormant condition.

This letter suggests that the Kelly process had been dormant since 1858.

Yet she wondered if the instinct were not dormant, needing but the suggestion.

We reported on the efforts of Dr. Susan Harkema, who is working to “wake up” dormant spinal cord neurons.

The Tea Party caucus she helped found to much fanfare in 2011 is now dormant.

In addition to its million-and-a-half year dormant stretch, the fault line is nearly impossible to see from above.