dormant

Adjective

• inactive but capable of becoming active
  • her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened
    

• lying with head on paws as if sleeping

• (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
  • a dormant volcano
    

• in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  • dormant buds
    
  • a hibernating bear
    
  • torpid frogs
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  abeyant , dormant(ip) , sleeping , inactive , hibernating(a) , torpid