The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LATENT which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
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 | 9 % | 5 |
| RESTING | 7 % | 7 |
| INACTIVE | 3 % | 8 |
| IDLE | 3 % | 4 |
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.