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stagnant
1. adj. Lacking freshness, motion, or flow; decaying through stillness.
a stagnant pool
stagnant water
2. adj. (figurative) Without progress or change; stale; inactive.
a stagnant economy
stagnant prices

Example Sentences

You think you have all the answers to everything, and chances are, your going to remain stagnant all your life because you refuse to play the game with anybody else's rules.  The Ethiopian private sector is stagnant, perhaps because so much of the country's land is leased from the state that it is impossible to secure loans using land as a collateral.

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