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Dormant vs Lethargic - What's the difference?

dormant | lethargic |

As adjectives the difference between dormant and lethargic

is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while lethargic is sluggish, slow.

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

    Antonyms

    * active * active, extinct

    Anagrams

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    lethargic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lethargick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sluggish, slow
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=[That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.}}
  • indifferent, apathetic
  • Synonyms

    * torpid * lazy * unmoving