The phrase "almost dormant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being that is nearly inactive or not currently functioning, often in contexts related to nature, technology, or business.
Example: "During the winter months, the plants in the garden are almost dormant, waiting for the warmth of spring to revive them."
Alternatives: "nearly inactive" or "partially asleep".
Some viruses lie almost dormant within neural tissue for years before causing destruction.
There are some functioning on a high level and some that are almost dormant.
For too long, this narrative has been lying almost dormant amid the focus on the deficit.
The plant will go almost dormant in summer, then send up new growth when the weather cools.
Outside London and Edinburgh, collections of modern art were almost dormant, which meant most people had no chance to grow familiar with it, as they had been able to do with Picasso, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
Centers like this deaden urban street life, bringing a rush of traffic and human activity all at one time and then lying almost dormant the rest of the day, like a stadium without a game.
Conservative Democrats are nearly dormant.
He was forced to take down his umbrella, and paddle, recalling later that "the winds that day were too civil by half, and the sleepless bay almost quite dormant".
Chafetz went on to become the founding director of the new National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the United States at the beginning of the 1970s; however, the study of brief interventions itself was almost completely dormant during the 1960s and early 1970s 5.
In the soil studied in this research, the natural B. cereus sl soil population consisted almost exclusively of dormant spores.
Could it be that proliferative cancer cells are killed by the chemotherapy, but that at an almost similar rate dormant cancer cells are activated due to microscopic vasculature healing?
