dormant

dormant is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
2. adjective. In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
3. adjective. A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
4. adjective. inactive but capable of becoming active

   "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"

   Synonyms: abeyant

5. adjective. (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct

   "a dormant volcano"

   Synonyms: inactive

6. adjective. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

   "dormant buds"

   "a hibernating bear"

   Synonyms: hibernating, torpid

7. adjective. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

   Synonyms: sleeping

Synonyms

abeyant, inactive, hibernating, torpid, sleeping

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dormant:

mordant

Common word forms

dormantly

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