to remain stagnant

Examples

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• Until someone addresses that issue, our economy is going to remain stagnant.

  Blog text (14)

• And while the minimum wage has remained stagnant, the prices of everything from rent to healthcare have gone way up.

• The social organization remains stagnant.

  Blog text (9)

• I think the division of the United States into two or more countries is a real possibility if the economy remains stagnant.

  Blog text (31)

• Faculty pay has remained stagnant or experienced bare minimum increases over the past 30 years.

  Blog text (12)

• The bottom 80% have seen their wages remain stagnant or decline in the last 40 years.

  Blog text (8)

• The concentrating solar thermal power market has remained stagnant since the early 1990s.

  Academic text (2006)

• Romney's advisers expect it to remain stagnant at 26%, or perhaps even decline.

  Blog text (23)

• Even as the U.S. drug control budget expanded by more than 50 percent in recent years, expenditures for demand-side policies remained stagnant, growing less than one percent per year over the past decade.

  Blog text (11)

• Young people's failure to excel, or to even reach proficiency in reading and writing in K-12, is reflected in the school literacy rates that continue to fall or, at best, remain stagnant decade after decade.

  Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

S

to stagnate

vsto remain stagnant

19 6.8

To stop growing or changing and stay the same, like water in a pond

has the same meaning but is a single verb form

L

to lie dormant

vsto remain stagnant

12 6.7

To be inactive but able to become active again

focuses on continuous lack of growth without implying later reactivation

P

to plateau

vsto remain stagnant

1 5.1

To stop increasing and stay at the same level for a while

describes general lack of growth rather than stopping after prior rise

Antonyms

G

to grow

∞ 1.0

Become larger or more physically mature

P

progress

∞ 2.5

Forward change toward a goal or better state

How Dynamic

to boom

97 3.4

to expand

805 2.5

to grow

∞ 1.0

to stabilize

• US

75 4.3

to remain stagnant

1 5.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology