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present participle of slumber.

slumbering

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asleep adj.
dormant adj.
quiescent adj.
sleeping adj.

ADJECTIVE

asleep

Synonyms

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comatose dormant

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catching some zzz's conked crashed dozing dreaming flaked out getting shut-eye hibernating in dreamland in repose inactive inert napping on the kip out out cold out like a light out of it reposing resting sacked out sleeping snoozing snoring somnolent taking forty winks

Antonyms

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attentive awake conscious

ADJECTIVE

dormant

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asleep comatose inert inoperative latent passive sidelined sluggish

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abeyant closed-down down fallow hibernating lethargic lurking on the shelf out of action potential prepatent quiescent slack smoldering suspended torpid

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active alert awake conscious lively

ADJECTIVE

quiescent

Synonyms

WEAK

asleep at rest deactivated dormant fallow idle immobile in abeyance inert inoperative latent motionless passive quiet stagnant still

Antonyms

WEAK

active

ADJECTIVE

sleeping

Synonyms

STRONGEST

comatose unconscious

WEAK

abed dormant inactive latent

Antonyms

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awake conscious

WEAK

waking

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slumbering

Treasury debt is a slumbering giant that is starting to stir.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

"The border with Lithuania is in 30 minutes," the assistant shouted to rouse slumbering passengers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

Shortly before 01:00 BST on 16 October, the slumbering streets of Benwell were rent by the roar of an enormous explosion.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

Before landing on the small ape of “The Legend of Ochi,” Saxon first considered a giant oaf and then something closer to the slumbering beast of Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

Juno had said something about him slumbering, and he did have a vague feeling that he’d been asleep—maybe for a long time.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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