DORMANT

adj. 1 asleep, sleeping, slumbering, resting, at rest, quiet, inactive, still, inert, unmoving, motionless, stationary, immobile, quiescent, comatose, torpid, hibernating, slumberous, somnolent, sleepy, lethargic, dull, sluggish The bears are dormant during much of the winter 2 latent, potential, hidden, concealed, undisclosed, unrevealed, unexpressed The theory lay dormant for centuries and has only recently been revived