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stagnantly

stagnantly adverb: in a stagnant manner.

Adverb

stagnantly (comparative more stagnantly, superlative most stagnantly)

  1. In a stagnant manner.
    • Andrew, Mina's husband! Ursula turned from her to him. The veins in his forehead stood out stagnantly; his blood-red eyes looked mournfully, helplessly at Ursula's, filling swiftly with maternal solicitude.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 251

Forms of stagnantly

comparativemore stagnantly
superlativemost stagnantly

Origin of stagnantly

From stagnant + -ly.

Questions about stagnantly

What does stagnantly mean?
Stagnantly means in a stagnant manner.
What part of speech is stagnantly?
Stagnantly is an adverb.

Words near stagnantly in the dictionary

  1. stagnancy
  2. stagnant
  3. stagnant hypoxia
  4. stagnant ice
  5. stagnant loop syndrome
  6. stagnantly
  7. stagnate
  8. stagnated
  9. stagnates
  10. stagnating
  11. stagnation

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