stagnant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not growing or changing

   I worried that my mind would become stagnant when I left school, but the opposite happened.

2. 2
   adj

   not circulating or flowing

   The water of the stagnant pond was full of algae.

From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans, present participle of stagno (“to form a pool of standing water”).

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