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Definition

not circulating or flowing

Note that stagnant can also be used as the adjective form of stagnate (not changing - in a negative sense).

stagnant water

A stagnant bilge along the lower bulkhead filled with wet papers and trash.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

stagnant = not circulating or flowing

The cellar had two feet of stagnant water in it, and was bottomed with six inches of soft mud.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
There was not a breath of wind, and the superheated, stagnant air was heavy with pestilence.
London, Jack -- Adventure
A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage—a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Treasure Island
The market's stagnant, there are no buyers.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
His way now led towards the river-side regions, and a cleansing whiff of tar was to be detected in the stagnant autumn air.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
Also, he was perishing for water, and panted, dry-tongued, dry-mouthed, in the stagnant heat.
London, Jack -- Jerry of the Islands
For a time my brain went stagnant.
Wells, H.G. -- The Time Machine
She knew nothing about the speed of decay in cold, stagnant water, but the body seemed to have been in the pool for a long time.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The stagnant air was sodden with the smells of sweat and wood varnish.
Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
It was as if a sweet clear spring had begun to rise in a stagnant pool and had risen and risen until at last it swept the dark water away.
Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
But the blood that burst from her body was black, stagnant, dying, and none of us saw a baby in that mess.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
'For a time my brain went stagnant.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
His ambition was chained, held back" a pool of stagnant water.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool.
John Gardner -- Grendel
His head was a tumult of smells—phlox in bloom, ashes, cow dung, dog, cat, hens, stagnant water.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
A mass of warm, stagnant air had moved up from the south and was being held in place over New England by hands of high pressure.
Stephen King -- Cujo
The mar ket's stagnant, there are no buyers.'
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage

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