different between stagnant vs stifling

English

Etymology

From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans, present participle of stagno (“to form a pool of standing water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæ?n?nt/

Adjective

stagnant (comparative more stagnant, superlative most stagnant)

1. Lacking freshness, motion, or flow; decaying through stillness.

2. (figuratively) Without progress or change; stale; inactive.

Derived terms

• stagnant hypoxia
• stagnantly
• stagnancy

Related terms

• stagnate
• stagflation

Translations

French

Verb

stagnant

1. present participle of stagner

Adjective

stagnant (feminine singular stagnante, masculine plural stagnants, feminine plural stagnantes)

1. stagnant

Further reading

• “stagnant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French stagnant, from Latin stagnans.

Adjective

stagnant m or n (feminine singular stagnant?, masculine plural stagnan?i, feminine and neuter plural stagnante)

1. stagnant

Declension

English

Adjective

stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)

1. That stifles.

   The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.

Translations

Verb

stifling

1. present participle of stifle

Noun

stifling (plural stiflings)

1. The act by which something is stifled.
   • 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)

     Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.

Anagrams

• filsting, fistling, flitings, liftings