Stagnant
['stægnənt]
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
Typed by Audrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Motionless, standing, close.[2]. Sluggish, inactive, inert, torpid, dull, heavy.
Typist: Margery
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Motionless, currentless, tideless, unflowing, uncirculating, still, dull,torpid, lifeless, quiescent
ANT:Brisk, flowing, circulating, rapid, lively, agitated, seething, effervescent,restless
Checker: Shelia
Definition
adj. stagnating: not flowing: motionless: impure from being motionless: not brisk: dull.—n. Stag′nancy the state of being stagnant.—adv. Stag′nantly.—v.i. Stag′nate to cease to flow: to become dull or motionless.—n. Stagnā′tion act of stagnating: state of being stagnant or motionless: dullness.
Edited by Annabel
Examples
- A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am marrying in despair, Mr. Bruff--on the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness which may reconcile me to my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it, through slow years, stagnant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The kennel was stagnant and filthy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To me, who can do nothing, it has been like living under stagnant water. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This stagnant state of things makes them decline in health. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Those that have lived there all their lives, are used to soaking in the stagnant waters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), Old Orlick. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Even the most insignificant problem would be welcome in these stagnant days. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And in the country some get such stagnant habits of mind that they are almost fatalists. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The night was still, dark, and stagnant: the water yet rushed on full and fast; its flow almost seemed a flood in the utter silence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No other class has been so stagnant intellectually as the British military caste. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Annabel