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STAGNANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not growing or changing; without force or vitality
Synonyms:
moribund; stagnant
Classified under:
Similar:
adynamic; undynamic (characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness)
Derivation:
stagnancy (a state of inactivity (in business or art etc))
stagnate (stand still)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not circulating or flowing
Example:
stagnant water
Synonyms:
dead; stagnant
Classified under:
Similar:
standing ((of fluids) not moving or flowing)
Derivation:
stagnancy (inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation)
stagnate (cease to flow; stand without moving)
stagnate (cause to stagnate)
Context examples:
Then at last, amid a shout of joy and praise from the bank, they slowly drew clear into more stagnant water, at the instant that a rope, made of a dozen sword-belts linked together by the buckles, was thrown by Ford into their very hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He could not fail to see that the men with whom he was thrown in contact, rough-tongued, fierce and quarrelsome as they were, were yet of deeper nature and of more service in the world than the ox-eyed brethren who rose and ate and slept from year's end to year's end in their own narrow, stagnant circle of existence.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went with them out to the veranda. On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea. Gatsby's eyes followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
