Word Meanings - DORMANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a
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In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner. -- Dormant window , a dormer window. See Dormer. -- Table dormant, a stationary table. Chaucer. (more info) 1. Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DORMANT)
- Inert
- Indolent
- slothful
- lazy
- sluggish
- heavy
- inactive
- passive
- dormant
- Silent
- Still
- taciturn
- speechless
- quiet
- noiseless
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DORMANT)
Related words: (words related to DORMANT)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - STILLING
A stillion. - INERTIA
That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiƦ. 2. Inertness; - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - STILLROOM
1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens. - QUIETER
One who, or that which, quiets. - STILL-HUNT
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. - DORMANT
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a - HEAVY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl. - DISTURBANCE
The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; - QUIET
p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They - STILLATORY
1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - IMPASSIVE
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n. - INSTILLATOR
An instiller.