Both Uses of
stagnant
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Colonel Aureliano Buendia had the impression that the phosphorescence of her bones was showing through her skin and that she moved in an atmosphere of Saint Elmo's fire, in a stagnant air where one could still note a hidden smell of gunpowder.†
Chpt 8
- It was a routine conversation which was not going to bring about any break in the stagnant war.†
Chpt 9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(stagnant) not circulating or flowing
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that stagnant can also be used as the adjective form of stagnate (not changing - in a negative sense).