quiescent.

Quiet or inactive, with activity potentially resuming.

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• quiescent volcano

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The volcano remained quiescent.

The dispute was quiescent for the winter.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more quiescent; superlative most quiescent where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.