Difference between Sleeping and Dormant

What is the difference between Sleeping and Dormant?

Sleeping as an adjective is asleep while Dormant as an adjective is inactive, asleep, suspended.

Sleeping

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: asleep used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the state or act of being asleep.

Example sentence: We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.

Dormant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Inactive, asleep, suspended.

Example sentence: Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

We hope you now know whether to use Sleeping or Dormant in your sentence.

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