Synonyms for stagnant
ˈstæg nəntstag·nant

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1. stagnant

   Synonyms:
   motionless, currentless, tideless, unflowing, uncirculating, still, dull, torpid, lifeless, quiescent

   Antonyms:
   brisk, flowing, circulating, rapid, lively, agitated, seething, effervescent, restless

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1. dead(a), stagnantadjective

   not circulating or flowing

   "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"

   Antonyms:
   running(a), dynamical, dynamic

2. stagnant, moribundadjective

   not growing or changing; without force or vitality

   Synonyms:
   dead(a), moribund

   Antonyms:
   dynamical, running(a), dynamic

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1. -naut

   constancy

   earthonaut

   Submitted by anonymous on September 22, 2020  

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1. stagnantadjective

   Synonyms:
   motionless, standing, close

2. stagnantadjective

   Synonyms:
   sluggish, inactive, inert, torpid, dull, heavy

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1. stagnantadjective

   Synonyms:
   motionless, standing, quiet, inactive, dull, sluggish

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1. List of paraphrases for "stagnant":

   sluggish, stagnating, deadlocked, standing

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How to use stagnant in a sentence?

1. David Victor:

   Because the federal government has been stagnant on these issues for a long time, a huge amount of activity has shifted to the states.

2. Robert Stewart:

   Selma is a very resilient place but it's a place that is stagnant, the sad thing is that it has so much potential.

3. Olive Schreiner:

   Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

4. Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks:

   Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

5. John Mason Good:

   Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.