stagnating

adjective

as in lifeless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagnating
  1. lifeless
  2. unproductive
  3. fallow
  4. dormant
  5. quiescent
  6. inert
  7. idle
  8. arrested
Adjective
  • They got smoked by Western Kentucky, and looked lifeless the entire game.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Zuckerberg, who mostly stays on the sidelines of the movie, is now a mighty billionaire and, as Strong plays him, a dour, lifeless dork.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of lifeless
Adjective
  • Around 350 residents turned up a few weeks ago to an informational meeting about the center that quickly turned loud, disruptive and unproductive.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Murray, on the other hand, heard some mild rounds of boos as the unproductive possessions began to pile up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of unproductive
Adjective
  • Then the company went fallow, and it was abandoned by Wall Street.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
  • During the Covid pandemic, the staff voluntarily used their fallow time to repair some of the old pilgrim trails winding through the forest behind.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of fallow
Adjective
  • The issues may have been lying dormant The vulnerabilities have been known about since at least 2024, according to the PHP Foundation.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • So Hanawalt reactivated her dormant Facebook account and began scrolling through local horse sale groups.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of dormant
Adjective
  • As in The History of New York, the Dutch patriarchs are invariably idle and quiescent.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Experts believe the volcano is currently in a quiescent state, but researchers monitor it around the clock.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Definition of quiescent
Adjective
  • If there were any more life to the filmmaking, this tension could least be interesting, but the results are both perky and inert, unreal but entirely unmoored in time and space.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Plastic has long been considered chemically inert, but in a new lab study, tiny plastic particles in water spontaneously produced highly reactive molecules.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of inert
Adjective
  • The aim is to make better use of satellite capacity that might otherwise sit idle when a system is outside its primary coverage area.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Overnight, one of the polishing tools had experienced an idle time of two hundred and nine seconds.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of idle
Adjective
  • In the case of the arrested teenager, who was detained in early August, agents pulled him and another man out of a truck in the 7-Eleven parking lot.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrested
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