stagnant

[ stag-nuhnt ]

Synonyms for stagnant

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Antonyms for stagnant

adjective. oppressive, humid

adjective. oppressive, humid

adjective. not working

adjective. uneventful

adjective. uneventful

Word Origin & History

1660s, from French stagnant (early 17c.), from Latin stagnantem (nominative stagnans), present participle of stagnare "to stagnate" (see stagnate).

Action will never be stagnant while there are such things as gold and power.

Her conversion was an event that broke the lethargy of their stagnant life.

Without him life would be stagnant, energy and virtue purposeless.

It was like opening a door out of a beautiful garden into a stagnant ditch.

"It must have been the wind in the trees," he thought; but there could be no wind in the stagnant dampness of that air.

The second in a stagnant water at the bottom of a deep ditch.

In hollows, or places where the air is stagnant, it may still be toxic.

The creek broadened, opening out into a wide sweep of a stagnant lagoon.

She was to him like a running stream to a man who had long bathed in stagnant waters.

It was a day of stagnant air, and the church swung with sleepy influences.