The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LATENT , but the solution may also be INERT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Dormant crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LATENT | 46 % | 6 |
| ASLEEP | 31 % | 6 |
| INERT | 10 % | 5 |
| RESTING | 7 % | 7 |
| IDLE | 3 % | 4 |
| INACTIVE | 3 % | 8 |
Why may INERT be the right solution?
The word "inert" means lacking the ability or strength to move. This fits the clue "dormant," which means temporarily inactive or asleep.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dormant
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- asleep
- sleeping
- torpid
- quiescent
- inactive
- unerect
- hibernating
- sleepy
- rest
- dead
- idle
- dormancy
Crossword Answer definitions
LATENT noun- (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
- An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
- Anything that is latent.
- Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
- (of a virus) remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
- Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result LATENT
- Dormant
- Unmanifested
- Inactive
- Present but inactive
- Potential
- Unrealized
- Unexpressed
- Fingerprint made visible by dusting
- Like some fingerprints
- Under the surface
More clues leading to the result ASLEEP
- In the arms of Morpheus
- In dreamland
- Little Boy Blue's state
- Sacked out
- Word after fast or sound
- Inactive
- Nodding
- Showing a screen saver
- Soporose
- In 24 Down's condition
More clues leading to the result INERT
- Like helium
- Like a couch potato
- Like krypton
- Nonreactive
- Languid
- Motionless
- Stagnant
- Immobile
- Like the elements on the far right of the periodic table
- Like helium or argon
More clues leading to the result RESTING
- Taking it easy
- On break
- Dormant
- Observing the Sabbath
- Kicking back
- Taking five
- Dormant.
- Inactive.
- Abiding.
- Basing.
More clues leading to the result IDLE
- Lay off
- Like some threats
- Not in use
- Not working
- Twiddling one's thumbs
- Cleese's cohort, once
- Inactive
- Like chatter, perhaps
- Run in neutral
- Unoccupied