stagnant

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: stag=nant
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

stagnant, a. [L. stagnans, -antis, p. pr. of stagnare. See Stagnate.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not active or brisk; dull; as, business is stagnant.  [1913 Webster]

  "That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul."  [1913 Webster]

  "For him a stagnant life was not worth living."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stagnant, adj.
1 (of liquid) motionless, having no current.
2 (of life, action, the mind, business, a person) showing no activity, dull, sluggish.

Derivative

stagnancy n. stagnantly adv.

Etymology

L stagnare stagnant- f. stagnum pool

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

stagnant

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.