stagnant
IPA: stˈægnʌnt
adjective
- Lacking freshness, motion, or flow; decaying through stillness.
- (figurative) Without progress or change; stale; inactive.
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Examples of "stagnant" in Sentences
- The water is stagnant.
- Demographically, the community is stagnant.
- During the 1950s the Irish economy remained stagnant.
- We experienced a more peaceful but stagnant matriarchy.
- The centre of the bog is wet with stagnant water in places.
- The river is almost stagnant except during the rain season.
- The water in the bog is stagnant, acidic, and nutrient poor.
- The modem market in the 1970's was very simple and stagnant.
- Due to it remote location, the population of settlements was stagnant.
- They won't want much, they will just let everything remain stagnant quo.
- Close to the end of the campaign, Barr's polling numbers remained stagnant.
- Caplan is saying that people who live in stagnant economies do not learn from failure.
- Since about 1990, a major factor in stagnant wages has been the increase in health care costs.
- That still wouldn't explain stagnant or declining hourly wages for bottom half men, of course.
- Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...
- I like that they are showing progression rather than having the way they relate to each remain stagnant – shucks, just like real life.
- Even when there is a stain, use the minimum water required for cleaning up and do not allow the water to remain stagnant on the surface.
- The Japanese economy has been called "stagnant," but according to a review by Robert Locke, this is because the Japanese aren't aiming for growth.
- Lately, most measures of inflation have been hitting the 1 percent range, and the Fed chairman left little doubt that he expects the rate to remain stagnant for some time.
- The willful destruction of the US economy by the previous administration is having the effect intended, which was to totally bust local, state and the federal government budgets and leave americans stuck in stagnant economy and divide the nation along economic lines.