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Dormant vs Slumbering - What's the difference?

dormant | slumbering |

As adjectives the difference between dormant and slumbering

is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while slumbering is temporarily inactive.

As a verb slumbering is

.

As a noun slumbering is

sleep.

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

    External links

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    slumbering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Temporarily inactive.
    • The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • sleep
  • * Bible, Job 33:15
    • In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed