Vocabulary
Dormant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time; in or as if in a deep sleep.
Urdu meaning
غیر فعال، بے حس و حرکت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Provisions that blur the line between poverty and criminality reflect that legacy.To retain them, even in dormant form, is to accept a framework that is fundamentally at odds with constitutional guarantees of dignity, equality and liberty.
Dawn Editorials —
Colonial relics
— 2026-04-08
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Responsibilities remain scattered across divisions and dormant bodies, including the Pakistan Climate Change Council chaired by the prime minister.
Dawn Editorials —
Climate finance in RoB
— 2026-02-26
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For the past several years, it had remained dormant.
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Mystery of the `port deal`
— 2025-10-08
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In actuality, it is the politics of keeping the provincial financial commission dormant, inefficient enforcement and collection of property tax and many other sources of revenue, and poor financial management that are responsible.
Dawn Editorials —
Beyond myths
— 2025-10-07
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HE Independence Day festivities have stirred something long thought to have been dormant within our political class.
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Thin ice
— 2025-08-16
Synonyms
asleep, sleeping, slumbering, resting, reposing, drowsing, comatose, supine,
Curator example
“dormant butterflies”
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