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dormantly

dormantly adverb: while dormant.

Adverb

dormantly (not comparable)

  1. While dormant.
    • The unfinished argument which had been smouldering dormantly like some quiescent volcano since Lockyer's day — suddenly boiled over in print. Hawkins' article in Nature kindled response from all quarters.2013, Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology, page 111

Origin of dormantly

From dormant + -ly.

Questions about dormantly

What does dormantly mean?
Dormantly means while dormant.
What part of speech is dormantly?
Dormantly is an adverb.

Words near dormantly in the dictionary

  1. dormant volcano
  2. dormant volcanoes
  3. dormant volcanos
  4. dormant window
  5. dormant windows
  6. dormantly
  7. dormantories
  8. dormantory
  9. dormants
  10. dormative
  11. dormaunt

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