1 stagnant water or air is not moving and therefore smells unpleasant:
a stagnant pond / pool * Few fish survive in the stagnant waters of the lake.
2 not developing, growing or changing:
Major new investments are aimed at reviving the stagnant economy. * a stagnant population * The housing market has been largely stagnant over the past few months.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stagnant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stagnant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stagnant is tagged as adjective.
Does stagnant appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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