Do not refill your canteen from stagnant water. I left the company because my career became stagnant.
Active, energetic, and dynamic are a few antonyms of stagnant.
The stagnant water smelled nasty.
methane is produced in the stagnant water in rice fields...
Unlike rushing water in a river, water in a pond is stationary and stagnant. 1 stagnant water or air is not moving and therefore smells unpleasant: Few fish survive in the stagnant waters of the lake. 2 not developing, growing or changing: The new investments are aimed at reviving the stagnant economy. The housing market has been largely stagnant over the past few months.
The elephants gathered around a stagnant watering hole since they were too tired to look for a freshwater source. The stagnant water smelled awful.
pour oil into the stagnant water
Then it's dirty. Good point. Stagnant MEANS dirty.
The stagnant water was unsafe to drink because it was not moving.
The water in the stagnant pond quickly took on an unpleasant smell.
The homonym for "stagnant" is "stationary." Both words can convey the idea of not moving or making progress.
'this stagnant problem' is not a sentence; a sentence requires a subject and a verb. This phrase could be the subject of a sentence if you add a verb:This stagnant problem has bothered us long enough.