Stagnant Definition

stăgnənt
adjective
Not flowing or moving.
Webster's New World
Foul from lack of movement.
Webster's New World
Showing little or no activity or vitality; inactive or sluggish.
A stagnant economy; a stagnant mind.
American Heritage
Not active, alert, etc.; sluggish.
A stagnant mind.
Webster's New World

Lacking freshness, motion, flow, progress, or change; stale; motionless; still.

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Origin of Stagnant

  • From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans, present participle of stagno (“to form a pool of standing water")

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin stāgnāns stāgnant- present participle of stāgnāre to be stagnant stagnate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stagnant 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.

  • I don't want to get stagnant in one job, one career or one thing.

  • They form a region of salt lakes and stagnant marshes, relieved by wide flat spaces of open plateau country.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTA

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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