abeyant, dormant
(adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active; “her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened”
dormant, inactive
(adjective) (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct; “a dormant volcano”
dormant, hibernating, torpid
(adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; “dormant buds”; “a hibernating bear”; “torpid frogs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dormant (not comparable)
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
(architecture) Leaning.
• (inactive, suspended): quiescent; see also inactive
• (inactive, suspended): active
• (volcano: inactive): active, extinct
dormant (plural dormants)
(architecture) A crossbeam or joist.
• mordant
Source: Wiktionary
Dor"mant, a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of dormir to sleep, from L. dormire; cf. Gr. dra, OSlav. dr.]
1. 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. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke.
2. (Her.)
Definition: In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner.
– Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer.
– Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dor"mant, n. Etym: [See Dormant, a.] (Arch.)
Definition: A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep." Arch. Pub. Soc.
– Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer. Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 March 2025
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
