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dormant

adj. inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"

inactive

adj. of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano"

sleeping

adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

torpid, hibernating

adj. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"

passive, inactive

adj. lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith

compliant

adj. disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"

lifeless

adj. lacking in spirit or animation

placid, equable, even-tempered, good-tempered

adj. not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays"

fallow

adj. left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland"

uncleared, untilled

adj. not plowed or harrowed or hoed; "untilled land"

uncultivated

adj. (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops; "uncultivated land"

idle, unused

adj. not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"

dead, inanimate

adj. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

dreamy, lackadaisical

adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

lethargic, unenergetic

adj. deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"

hypoactive, underactive

adj. abnormally inactive

inert, lethargic, sluggish, torpid

adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

sedentary

adj. requiring sitting or little activity; "forced by illness to lead a sedentary life"

reclining, accumbent, decumbent, recumbent, lying down

adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

bent, bowed, inclined

adj. used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders"

nodding, cernuous, drooping, pendulous

adj. having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

couchant

adj. lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward

huddled, crouched, crouching, hunkered, hunkered down

adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"

flat, prostrate

adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked

adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"

kneeling

adj. (unerect)

leaning

adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"

lolling, lounging

adj. lying in a relaxed manner

prostrate, prone

adj. lying face downward

slouched, slouching, slumped

adj. with shoulders drooping

supine, resupine

adj. lying face upward

sleeping, at rest, slumbering

adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

drowsy, drowsing, dozing, napping, nodding

adj. half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"

sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded

adj. ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent

adj. inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect"

unawakened

adj. still asleep

unconscious

adj. (asleep)

inactive, extinct

adj. (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"

active

adj. (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos"

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