Dormant vs Nonresistant - What's the difference?
dormant | nonresistant | Related terms |
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
Dormant is a related term of nonresistant.
As adjectives the difference between dormant and nonresistant
is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while nonresistant is not resistant.dormant
English
Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- 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.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant
