Usually means: Ceasing activity to relax, recover.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. resting: Merriam-Webster
  2. resting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. resting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. resting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Resting, resting: Wordnik
  6. resting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. resting: Wiktionary
  8. resting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. resting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. resting: Dictionary.com
  11. resting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Resting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Resting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. resting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Resting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. resting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. resting: FreeDictionary.org
  18. resting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. resting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. resting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. resting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. resting: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. resting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resting: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. resting: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Resting: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (resting)

▸ noun:  The action of rest
▸ noun:  A place where one can rest; a resting place.
▸ noun:  A pause; a break; an interlude.
▸ adjective:  That rests; that is not in action or in the process of growth.
▸ adjective:  (euphemistic) Unemployed; out of work.
▸ adjective:  Remaining; stationary.
▸ verb:  To sting again.

Similar:
repose, respite, lie, remain, residue, stay, residuum, remainder, residual, relief, more...

Opposite:
active, working, moving, bustling, awake

Types:
napping, sleeping, laying down, relaxing, reclining, more...

Phrases:
resting on, resting place, resting upon, resting potential, resting state, more...

Adjectives:
final, states, surface, afternoon, cardiac, such, nopah

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Similar:
repose, respite, lie, remain, residue, stay, residuum, remainder, residual, relief, more...

Opposite:
active, working, moving, bustling, awake

Types:
napping, sleeping, laying down, relaxing, reclining, more...

Phrases:
resting on, resting place, resting upon, resting potential, resting state, resting places, resting stage, resting spores, resting phase, resting pulse, resting tremor, resting cell, resting potentials, more...

Adjectives:
final, states, surface, afternoon, cardiac, such, nopah

Colors:
    pale blue,     soft lavender,     light gray,     pastel pink,     mint green, more...



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