All 4 Uses of
stagnant
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- She had the mobile face frequent in those whose sight has decayed by stages, has been laboriously striven after, and reluctantly let go, rather than the stagnant mien apparent in persons long sightless or born blind.†
Chpt 1 *
- The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.†
Chpt 3
- The dull sky soon began to tell its meaning by sending down herald-drops of rain, and the stagnant air of the day changed into a fitful breeze which played about their faces.†
Chpt 4
- They were talking no secrets, and the clear unconcerned voice of the young woman, in response to the warmer accents of the man, spread into the chilly air as the one soothing thing within the dusky horizon, full of a stagnant obscurity upon which nothing else intruded.†
Chpt 6
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).