stagnant C2 Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˈstæɡnənt/ See IPA manual Freq #31900 Meanings 1 adj not growing or changing I worried that my mind would become stagnant when I left school, but the opposite happened. 2 adj not circulating or flowing The water of the stagnant pond was full of algae. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · not growing or changing moribund 2 adj · not circulating or flowing dead More stalestatic ↔ Opposites flowing Word family Derived forms stagnancystagnantlystagnation Related forms stagflationstagnate Appears in Phrases (1) See all stagnant water water that remains still instead of flowing or circulating Adjective + noun Etymology From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans, present participle of stagno (“to form a pool of standing water”). stagnant French stagnans Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # stagnant **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ˈstæɡnənt/ **Frequency rank:** 31900 ## Meanings 1. not growing or changing 2. not circulating or flowing ## Examples - I worried that my mind would become stagnant when I left school, but the opposite happened. - The water of the stagnant pond was full of algae. ## Synonyms - moribund - dead - stale - static ## Antonyms - flowing ## Derived Forms - stagnancy - stagnantly - stagnation ## Related Forms - stagflation - stagnate ## Roots and Affixes - Root: stagnant - Root: stagnans ## Etymology From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans, present participle of stagno (“to form a pool of standing water”). ## Topics - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown