In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation:
— Dormant buds.

synoniemen: hibernating, torpid.

Roget 172: inert, inactive, passive; torpid etc. 683; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential^†.    latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 683: inactive; motionless etc. 265; unoccupied etc. (doing nothing) 681; unbusied^†.    indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk^†, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish^†; exanimate^†, soulless; listless; drony^†, dronish^†; lazy as Ludlam's dog.    dilatory, laggard; lagging etc. v.; slow etc. 275; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering etc. v.; shilly-shally etc. (irresolute) 605.    sleeping, etc. v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.    sleepy, sleepful^†; dozy^†, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent^†, lethargic, lethargical^†; somnifacient^†; statuvolent^†, statuvolic^†; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific^†, somniferous; soporous^†, soporific, soporiferous^†; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.    sedative etc. 174.    ... meer laten zien

of e.g. volcanos Not erupting and not extinct:
— A dormant volcano.

synoniem: inactive.

Lying with head on paws as if sleeping.

synoniem: sleeping.

Inactive but capable of becoming active:
— Her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened.

synoniem: abeyant.

Roget 526: latent; lurking etc. v.; secret etc. 528; occult; implied etc. v.; dormant; abeyant.    unapparent, unknown, unseen etc. 441; in the background; invisible etc. 447; indiscoverable^†, dark; impenetrable etc. (unintelligible) 519; unspied^†, unsuspected.    unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed^†, untalked of^†, untold etc. 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed^†, undisclosed etc. 529, unexpressed; not expressed, tacit.    undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced^†, undiscovered etc. 480.1, untracked, unexplored, uninvented^†.    indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic^†; understood, underhand, underground; delitescent^†, concealed etc. 528.    ... meer laten zien