dormant   (Sound)

The adj dormant has 4 senses

• dormant, hibernating, torpid -- (in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs")


• dormant, inactive -- ((of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano")


• dormant, sleeping -- (lying with head on paws as if sleeping)


• abeyant, dormant -- (inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened")