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Dormant vs Resting - What's the difference?

dormant | resting |

As adjectives the difference between dormant and resting

is that dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended while resting is that which rests; that which is not in action or in the process of growth.

As a noun resting is

the action of rest; repose; inactivity; reliance; confidence.

As a verb resting is

present participle of lang=en.

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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    resting

    English

    Noun

  • The action of rest; repose; inactivity; reliance; confidence.
  • * 1865 , Merritt Munson, The History of Moses and the Israelites (page 199)
    • Hence, if the universal Father had
  • A place where one can rest; a resting-place.
  • A pause; a break; an interlude.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That which rests; that which is not in action or in the process of growth.
  • Unemployed.
  • Remaining; stationary.

    • Verb

    (head)

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