What does 'dormant' mean?

What does 'dormant' mean?

• A. Fully active and growing.
• B. Loud and disruptive.
• C. Inactive or temporarily inactive.
• D. Beginning to develop.

Answer: (C)

Dormant means not active right now, or held in reserve to become active later. It describes something that isn’t growing or functioning at the moment, but could resume activity under the right conditions. The correct choice captures this sense of temporary inactivity: something is not currently active. Other options describe states that involve activity or noise, which isn’t what dormant implies—being fully active and growing is the opposite, being loud and disruptive is unrelated, and beginning to develop suggests activity has started rather than paused.

Dormant means not active right now, or held in reserve to become active later. It describes something that isn’t growing or functioning at the moment, but could resume activity under the right conditions. The correct choice captures this sense of temporary inactivity: something is not currently active. Other options describe states that involve activity or noise, which isn’t what dormant implies—being fully active and growing is the opposite, being loud and disruptive is unrelated, and beginning to develop suggests activity has started rather than paused.