STAGNATING Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

stagnating

adjective

as in lifeless

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Adjective

The Dodgers have looked lifeless at the plate and vulnerable on the mound while losing eight of their past nine.

— Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2026
He was surrounded by family, twelve sets of hands holding his lifeless body, sending him onward with heartache and love and stunned disbelief.

— Dr. Lucy McBride, Time, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of lifeless

Adjective

The most important driver is the unit economics of campus recruitment + making inexperienced, unproductive new workers productive.

— Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
The new class of legislators will inherit a body marked by a tense and often unproductive last few years, including budgetary delays and accusations of poor communication and transparency.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of unproductive

Adjective

The farm system, which looked so fallow a year ago, is showing many of the same signs of revitalization as the parent club.

— David Aldridge, New York Times, 4 July 2026
In recent days, the property remained largely fallow, other than the thick underbrush and countless weeds that choked the site, which is about one-third of an acre in size, this news organization’s direct observation of the property shows.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Definition of fallow

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Her team has dug up living anthrax samples that may have been dormant for 80 years in previous research.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
If your crepe myrtles aren’t receiving enough light, transplant them to a new growing location when the plants are dormant in winter.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of dormant

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Experts believe the volcano is currently in a quiescent state, but researchers monitor it around the clock.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
For galaxies with a quiescent supermassive black hole, astronomers measure how quickly the stars tightly packed near the center of the galaxy are traveling.

— Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 25 June 2026

Definition of quiescent

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Like the Chinese test facility, the KRONOS design uses inert helium rather than liquid water to cool the reactor core.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026
This summer alone, TSA has found two live smoke grenades, an inert grenade, a pipe bomb look-alike and a samurai sword hidden in a guitar case.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of inert

Adjective

Hundreds of laymen, actuated solely by idle curiosity, received little more than a crick in the neck for their pains.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Aug. 2026
There was no idle time as players and coaches were in motion in preparation for a new era of playing at the highest-classification FBS.

— Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of idle

Adjective

North Dakota adopted a bill last year requiring a legislative council to study the feasibility of using nonproductive wells to generate geothermal power.

— Maria Gallucci, Wired News, 16 May 2026
Returning nonproductive properties to the tax rolls, creating jobs and boosting the quality of life are only some of the benefits of redeveloping troubled properties.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026

Definition of nonproductive

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