Dormant vs Passive - What's the difference?
dormant | passive |
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
Taking no action.
(grammar) Being in the passive voice.
(psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
(finance) Not participating in management.
(uncountable, grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
(countable, grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
As adjectives the difference between dormant and passive
is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while passive is being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.As a noun passive is
the passive voice of verbs.dormant
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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
Antonyms
* active * active, extinctExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----passive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He remained passive during the protest.