as in frozen
not flowing or moving
They were warned against drinking the stagnant pond water.
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Recent Examples of stagnant
When air is stagnant, pollutants don't get dispersed, allowing ozone to build up to unhealthy levels.
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Something that’s been stagnant in your daily rhythm may crack open.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
During the dry summers when no water flows over the weir the lagoon becomes stagnant, sometimes filling with algae and killing off large numbers of fish.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The defense was stellar, holding UF to just 141 yards and 0 for 13 on third down, but the offense was stagnant most of the game until putting together two solid touchdown drives late to pull away in a game that was only 13-7 late in the third quarter.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Something that’s been stagnant in your daily rhythm may crack open.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
During the dry summers when no water flows over the weir the lagoon becomes stagnant, sometimes filling with algae and killing off large numbers of fish.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The defense was stellar, holding UF to just 141 yards and 0 for 13 on third down, but the offense was stagnant most of the game until putting together two solid touchdown drives late to pull away in a game that was only 13-7 late in the third quarter.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagnant
Adjective
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The Midtown café offers an extensive menu of beverages, including various coffees, slushes and a frozen white chocolate.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The researchers found that live ants worked much better than dehydrated and frozen ants as a starter for fermentation.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Hakam appeared motionless, as guests tended to him.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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The lengthy pre-copulation stage involved all three sharks motionless on the seafloor for nearly an hour, after which the female started swimming with one male shark biting onto each of her pectoral fins.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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After tribal leader Javier Chocobar raised a still camera to record what the men were doing, one of them shot him dead.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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The still photo is one of the iconic images of the Vietnam War, but NBC also filmed the killing.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Stagnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagnant. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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