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hibernation
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
noun as in shuteye
noun as in sleep
noun as in vegetation
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Example Sentences
Feminism had gone into partial hibernation during the 1990s, saddled with a reputation for severity and humorlessness.
The study also noted that bear attacks mostly occurred during August, when bears are gearing up for hibernation and seeking food.
A new fawning documentary, however, hopes to lure the Mama Grizzly out of campaign hibernation.
The big man wheeled around like a bear aroused from hibernation.
It's more of a coma, something like the hibernation of a bear or a possum.
Indeed it was what it seemed—War emerging from his hibernation and waking up to kill again.
The bat's secret appears to be that he is not the bird-mammal, but the mammal-insect: economy of tissue, hibernation.
There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals.
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On this page you'll find 255 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hibernation, such as: dawdling, dormancy, droning, inactivity, indolence, and inertia.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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