Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not moving or flowing; motionless.
- adj. Foul or stale from standing: stagnant ponds.
- adj. Showing little or no sign of activity or advancement; not developing or progressing; inactive: a stagnant economy.
- adj. Lacking vitality or briskness; sluggish or dull: a stagnant mind.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion
- adj. Not active or brisk; dull.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not growing or changing; without force or vitality
- adj. not circulating or flowing
Etymologies
- From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans, present participle of stagno ("to form a pool of standing water") (Wiktionary)
- Latin stāgnāns, stāgnant-, present participle of stāgnāre, to be stagnant; see stagnate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That still wouldn't explain stagnant or declining hourly wages for bottom half men, of course.”
Squeezed Up, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“They won't want much, they will just let everything remain stagnant quo.”
“The Japanese economy has been called "stagnant," but according to a review by Robert Locke, this is because the Japanese aren't aiming for growth.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Brown: Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don't Matter
“Even when there is a stain, use the minimum water required for cleaning up and do not allow the water to remain stagnant on the surface.”
“Since about 1990, a major factor in stagnant wages has been the increase in health care costs.”
“Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...”
“Caplan is saying that people who live in stagnant economies do not learn from failure.”
Growth and Economic Literacy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The willful destruction of the US economy by the previous administration is having the effect intended, which was to totally bust local, state and the federal government budgets and leave americans stuck in stagnant economy and divide the nation along economic lines.”
First on the Ticker: RNC blasts Obama's stimulus in new video
“I like that they are showing progression rather than having the way they relate to each remain stagnant – shucks, just like real life.”
'Bones' recap: Pops knows best (and now, about Club Jiggle) | EW.com
“Lately, most measures of inflation have been hitting the 1 percent range, and the Fed chairman left little doubt that he expects the rate to remain stagnant for some time.”
The Washington Post: Bernanke: Fed prepared to act to boost economy
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stagnant’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words
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avfordomd's list
lexicon
copacetic, amiable, philanthropic, misanthropic, gregarious, vehement, parcel, congregate, paucity, passel, multitudinous, pulchritudinous and 98 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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passive
words of inaction
abeyance, bathetic, nullify, timorous, cunctator, reticent, inertia, stagnant, languid, staid, tarry, fallow and 13 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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pagecrusher's Words
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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Necessary?
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I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 996 more...
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