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Yielding vs Dormant - What's the difference?

yielding | dormant | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between yielding and dormant

is that yielding is docile, or inclined to give way to pressure while dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

As a verb yielding

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun yielding

is a concession.

yielding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concession.

    • Derived terms

    * overyielding

    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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