Stagnant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stagnant \Stag"nant\ (-nant), a. [L. stagnans, -antis, p. pr. of
     stagnare. See {Stagnate}.]
     1. That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or
        steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of
        motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the
        veins.


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     2. Not active or brisk; dull; as, business is stagnant.
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              That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul. --Johnson.
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              For him a stagnant life was not worth living.
                                                    --Palfrey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stagnant
       adj 1: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
              "stagnant water" [syn: {dead(a)}]
       2: not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn: {moribund}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "stagnant":
     abeyant, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic,
     contaminated, contemplative, dead, debilitated, dirty, do-nothing,
     dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate,
     filthy, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, idle, immobile,
     in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded,
     lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous,
     latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish,
     meditative, moribund, motionless, neuter, neutral, numb, paralytic,
     paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, polluted, pooped, procrastinating,
     putrefied, putrescent, putrid, quiescent, quiet, quietist,
     quietistic, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow,
     sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, stagnating, stale,
     standing, standpat, static, stationary, still, stultified, supine,
     suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unmoving, vegetable,
     vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary