dormant

/ˈdɔːmənt/adjective

Not active for a period of time, as if asleep, but able to become active again.

Example sentences

“The volcano has been dormant for over two hundred years.”
“Many plants stay dormant until the warm weather returns.”

Volcanoes are the textbook example: dormant means quiet but not extinct. Accounts, seeds, and viruses also lie dormant.

Related words

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