Stagnant

Definition: Stagnant

Stagnant

Adjective

1. Not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water".

2. Not growing or changing; without force or vitality.

Date "stagnant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Stagnant \Stag"nant\, adjective. [Latin expression stagnans, -antis, present participle of stagnare. See Stagnate.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Environment	Referring to meteorological conditions that are not conducive to atmospheric mixing. (references)
Food & Agriculture	Disagreeable taste or odour recalling that of stagnant water. Imparted to wine by casks which have not been properly drained and contain stagnant water. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stagnant

Synonyms: dead(a) (adj), moribund (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Quiescence	Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating.
Wind	Phrase: "lull'd by soft zephyrs"; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard"; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air"; "while mocking winds are piping loud"; "winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Stagnant

English words defined with "stagnant": billabong ♦ chlorophyte, conferva ♦ green algae ♦ Laving ♦ marsh gas ♦ Paramylum, Piedmont glacier, Piedmont type of glacier ♦ Restagnant ♦ saprobe, slough, spirillum, stagnancy, Stagnantly, stagnation, still life. (references)

Specialty definitions using "stagnant": Baal, black shale ♦ Choice of Relatives ♦ dead air, ditch water ♦ Euglena gracilis, euxinic ♦ Hair Eels ♦ retting dam, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Rhodospirillaceae, Rhodospirillum rubrum ♦ water body. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Stagnant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (dull, slack, sluggish, stagnant, stagnating), Romanian (stagnant).

Domain	Title
Books	A Swim in the Stagnant Pool (reference) Streetwise Small Business Turnaround: Revitalizing Your Struggling or Stagnant Enterprise (Adams Streetwise Series) (reference) Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies: Poverty, Disease, and Underdevelopment (reference) The stagnant society (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Standing pools of stagnant rain water may contain several species of mosquito larvae. Credit: CDC.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Hosea Ballou	Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.
Leonardo Da Vinci	Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A tumultuous and stagnant gulf.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Do not swim in warm, stagnant, fresh water, such as ponds or wastewater discharge pools, or unchlorinated swimmimg pools. (references)
		Bullectomy, or surgical removal of large air spaces called bullae that are filled with stagnant air, may be beneficial in selected patients. (references)
		Most commonly, the ameba is found in the soil and in warm, stagnant bodies of fresh water, such as lakes, rivers, and hot springs, unchlorinated swimming pools, and in warm wastewater pools from power plants. (references)
Business		By all means, Germany is not a stagnant market. (references)
		Growth in the luxury and spa sectors is by no means stagnant. (references)
		Though demand in the Italian market for fuel additives aimed at protecting engine valves was previously stagnant because of the prospective leaded fuel ban, it is now enjoying tremendous growth. (references)
Economic History	Sudan	Exports other than oil are largely stagnant. (references)
	Ghana	During Rawlings' first year, the economy was stagnant. (references)
	Spain	The mining and chemical products sectors remain stagnant. (references)
Political Economy	Jordan	Wages remain stagnant. (references)
	INDIA	Despite relatively stagnant U.S. trade and investment flows to India, the United States continues to be the largest investor in India and its biggest trading partner. (references)
	HAITI	Over the last two years, the economy has been stagnant and declining, as the government has been gripped by a political crisis stemming from the disputed May 2000 parliamentary elections. (references)
Women	Yemen	However, since the 1994 civil war, the number of working women in the south appears to have declined, due not only to the stagnant economy but also to increasing cultural pressure from the north. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge; as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his glory on the Plain of Shinar. From Babel comes our English word "babble." Under whatever name worshiped, Baal is the Sun-god. As Beelzebub he is the god of flies, which are begotten of the sun's rays on the stagnant water. In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Their economic life is primitive and stagnant.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	For twenty years, the wages of working families have been stagnant, or declining.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Stagnant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stagnant" is used about 226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	226	20,021

Expressions using "stagnant": be stagnant ♦ become stagnant ♦ deadprenominal stagnant standingprenominal still ♦ stagnant anoxia ♦ stagnant hypoxia ♦ stagnant investment ♦ stagnant water. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "stagnant": near-stagnant, now-stagnant, semi-stagnant.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "stagnant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ndenjur (sedentary, stale, superincumbent), i fjetur (dormant, lethargic, sleeping, sleepy, torpid), i amullt (sluggish), amull (backwater). (various references)

Arabic		‏فاتر (apathetic, chilly, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, frigid, half hearted, indifferent, languid, listless, lukewarm, slack, spiritless, tepid, unenthusiastic, unfriendly), ‏نتن (fetid, fetor, foetid, malodorous, mephitis, rancid, rotten, stank, stink, stinky), ‏آسن (putrefactive, putrid, stagnancy, stagnation), ‏راكد (flat, remaining, slack, sluggish, static). (various references)

Bulgarian		муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), застоял (fuggy, fusty, slack, still, stuffy, well-handled), загнил (carious, carrion, unsound), бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready). (various references)

Chinese		停滞 (stagnate, Stagnated, Stagnating, stagnation). (various references)

Czech		stojatý (standing), stagnující (slack), zatuchlý (dank, foul, rancid, stale, stuffy), zahnívající. (various references)

Danish		rådden smag (bilge water(taste or odor)), rådagtig smag (bilge water(taste or odor)). (various references)

Dutch		poelsmaak (bilge water(taste or odor)). (various references)

Farsi		کساد (Inactive, Insensitive, Off, Slack, Sluggish, Tight), ایستا (Resting, Static, Stationary), راکد (Dull, Inert, Resting, Still), بدون حرکت (Standstill). (various references)

Finnish		seisovan veden maku (bilge water(taste or odor)), pilaantuneen veden maku (bilge water(taste or odor)). (various references)

French		stagnant (stagnating), inactif, gout de croupi, dans le marasme, croupissant. (various references)

German		stockend (balking, faltering, halting, haltingly, hesitant, stagnantly), stillstehend (idle, stationary). (various references)

Greek		στάσιμοσ (stationary), γεύση σήψης (bilge water(taste or odor)). (various references)

Hebrew		מים עומ�"ים (stagnant water). (various references)

Hungarian		pangó (depressed, slack, sluggish), stagnáló, mozdulatlan (fixed, immobile, immovable, motionless, moveless, stationary, still, stock-still, unmoved). (various references)

Indonesian		sendat (not flowing freely). (various references)

Italian		stagnante (slack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		溜まり水 (stagnant water), 澱む (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble), 淀む (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble), 止水 (stagnant water, still water). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たまりみず (stagnant water), しすい (stagnant water, still water), よどむ (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble). (various references)

Korean		� �체하�". (various references)

Manx		marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping), loauit. (various references)

Pig Latin		agnantstay

Portuguese		sabor ou cheiro a choco (bilge water(taste or odor)), paralisado (numb), parado (dull, idle, immobile, logged, parked, quit, stationary, stop, unmeaning, work-shy), inerte (drowsy, inactive, inert, leaded, leaden, lifeless, lumpish, supine), inativo (deedless, dormant, idle, inactive, passive, slothful, supine, torpid, unemployed, unplaced, work-shy), gosto a podre (bilge water(taste or odor)), estagnante, estagnado (logged, standing). (various references)

Romanian		stagnant, stãtãtor (standing, stationary, steady), care stagneazã. (various references)

Russian		косный (mandarin, musty, rigid), инертный (inactive, inert, noble, passive, rare, slothful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stajaći, zaostao (backward, backwater, behindhand, benighted, dilatory, retarded), ustajao (logged, musty, stale). (various references)

Spanish		estancado. (various references)

Swedish		stillastående (dead, idle, stagnation, standstill, stationary), slö (bovine, drowsy, dull, fat-witted, fishy, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, obtuse, sappy, slack, supine). (various references)

Turkish		sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, extinguished, faint, lifeless, spiritless, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, tired, torpid, workshy), ruhsuz (dead alive, dull, impassive, inanimate, soulless, spiritless, wooden), mıymıntı (drowsy, slack, sleepy, slowpoke, slug, sluggish, stick in the mud), hareketsiz (at rest, dormant, flat, immobile, in repose, inactive, inert, motionless, ponderous, put, quiescent, sleepy, staring, stationary, still, stock-still, tepid), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references)

Turkmen		яata. (various references)

Ukrainian		стоячий (erect, standing, upstanding), в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, sleepy), застійний (sluggish). (various references)

Vietnamese		phẳng lặng như nước ao tù đình trệ, ứ đọng; tù hãm. (various references)

Welsh		merddwr (stagnant water). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stagnant": stagnantly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Stagnant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sagant, sanglant, Settignano, staggnent, stagnany, stagnat, stagnent, Stigand, Straughan, Tsangano. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "stagnant" (pronounced sta"gnunt)
5	-g n u n t	indignant, malignant, pregnant, repugnant.
4	-n u n t	abstinent, complainant, component, consonant, contaminant, continent, covenant, determinant, dissonant, dominant, eminent, exponent, immanent, imminent, impertinent, incontinent, lieutenant, opponent, pennant, permanent, pertinent, predominant, preeminent, prominent, proponent, recombinant, remnant, resonant, ruminant, semipermanent, subcontinent, tenant.
3	-u n t	abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complaisant, complement, compliant, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contentment, contestant, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immigrant, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, percipient, persistent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, pronouncement, propellant, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-n-n-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: natant, satang.
	-3 letters: angas, angst, annas, antas, gnats, naans, nanas, sanga, stang, tangs.
	-4 letters: agas, anas, anga, anna, ansa, anta, ants, gast, gats, gnat, naan, nags, nana, nans, saga, sang, snag, stag, stat, tags, tang, tans, tats.
	-5 letters: aas, aga, ana, ant, att, gan, gas, gat, nag, nan, sag, sat, tag, tan, tas, tat.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-n-n-s-t-t"
	+2 letters: antagonist, sanitating, stagnantly, stagnating, stagnation.
	+3 letters: antagonists, arctangents, stagnations, tantalising, transacting, translating.
	+4 letters: antagonistic.
	+5 letters: augmentations, ingratiations, instantiating, intransigeant, retranslating, strangulating, strangulation, translocating, transplanting.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
stagnant	19
stagnant water	5
pond stagnant	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Stagnant

Definition: Stagnant

Stagnant

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Stagnant

Synonyms: Stagnant

Synonyms within Context: Stagnant

Quiescence

Wind

Crosswords: Stagnant

Commercial Usage: Stagnant

Books

Photo Album: Stagnant

Familiar Quotations: Stagnant

Hosea Ballou

Leonardo Da Vinci

Use in Literature: Stagnant

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Stagnant

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Stagnant

Harry S. Truman

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Stagnant

Expressions: Stagnant

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stagnant

Modern Translation: Stagnant

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Derivations & Misspellings: Stagnant

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Rhyming with "Stagnant"

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