- not flowing or moving
- foul from lack of movement: said of water, etc.
- not active, alert, etc.; sluggish: a stagnant mind
Origin of stagnant
Classical Latin stagnans, present participle of stagnare: see stagnate
adjective
The definition of stagnant is someone or something that has little or no movement or activity.
An example of stagnant is a pond in which the water is not moving.
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stagnant
adjective
- Not flowing or moving, and often foul-smelling or stale: stagnant ponds; stagnant air.
- Showing little or no activity or vitality; inactive or sluggish: a stagnant economy; a stagnant mind.
Origin of stagnant
Latin stāgnāns stāgnant- present participle of stāgnāre to be stagnant ; see stagnate .Related Forms:
- stag′nan·cy
noun
- stag′nant·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more stagnant, superlative most stagnant)
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stagnant - Medical Definition
adj.
Not flowing or moving, and often foul-smelling or stale: stagnant ponds; stagnant air.
Related Forms:
- stag′nan·cy
n.
- stag′nant·ly
adv.
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Sentence Examples
- A stagnant pool was useless.
- She walked down the alley, nose wrinkling at the scents of trash and stagnant water.
- The climate is by nature unhealthy, the supply of running water being small, and that of stagnant water, from which arises a fatal malaria, being considerable.
- They form a region of salt lakes and stagnant marshes, relieved by wide flat spaces of open plateau country.
- The preliminary stages of all mosquitoes are passed in water, either fresh or salt, stagnant or slightly moving.
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WORDS NEAR stagnant IN THE DICTIONARY
- stagnant
- stagirites
- staglike
- stagnancies