stagnant

stagnant
    adj 1: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
           "stagnant water" [syn: {dead(a)}, {stagnant}]
    2: not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn:
       {stagnant}, {moribund}]
    

Stagnant \Stag"nant\ (-nant), a. [L. stagnans, -antis, p. pr. of
   stagnare. See {Stagnate}.]
   1. That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or
      steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of
      motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the
      veins.
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   2. Not active or brisk; dull; as, business is stagnant.
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            That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul. --Johnson.
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            For him a stagnant life was not worth living.
                                                  --Palfrey.
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95 Moby Thesaurus words for "stagnant":
      abeyant, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic,
      contaminated, contemplative, dead, debilitated, dirty, do-nothing,
      dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate,
      filthy, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, idle, immobile,
      in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded,
      lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous,
      latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish,
      meditative, moribund, motionless, neuter, neutral, numb, paralytic,
      paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, polluted, pooped, procrastinating,
      putrefied, putrescent, putrid, quiescent, quiet, quietist,
      quietistic, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow,
      sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, stagnating, stale,
      standing, standpat, static, stationary, still, stultified, supine,
      suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unmoving, vegetable,
      vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary