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# stagnant

«stagnant» in Mova's school dictionary: **still and does not flow, so it becomes dirty, smelly and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stagnant water is still and does not flow, so it becomes dirty, smelly and full of germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/#m1)

2) In a general sense, something stagnant is dull and not changing or growing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a stagnant pool or marsh is dirty and dangerous, and a stagnant life is dull and lifeless

### examples

- The pond was stagnant and smelled bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/#x1)
- Do not drink stagnant water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/#x2)
- Mosquitoes breed in stagnant puddles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/#x3)
- After a year in the same job, his life felt stagnant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stagnant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stagnant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.