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Unrealised vs Dormant - What's the difference?

unrealised | dormant | Related terms |

Unrealised is a related term of dormant.


As adjectives the difference between unrealised and dormant

is that unrealised is while dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

unrealised

English

Adjective

(-)

    • 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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