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Compliant vs Dormant - What's the difference?

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Compliant is a related term of dormant.


As adjectives the difference between compliant and dormant

is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

compliant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
    • The suspect was compliant when arrested.
  • Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
    • The browser is standards compliant .
    The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    Derived terms

    (compatible with guidlines) * *

    See also

    * compliantly

    Anagrams

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    dormant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dormaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
    • Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
    The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
    This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
  • * Burke
    • It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
  • (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
    • a lion dormant

    Related terms

    * dorm * dormancy * dormition * dormitive * dormitory

    Antonyms

    * active * active, extinct

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