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Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant. That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul. Johnson. For him a stagnant life was not worth living. Palfrey.

To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates. Ready-witted tenderness . . . never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope. Sir W. Scott.

The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.

The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open. "A dull and stupid stare." Churchill.

Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. Shak.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. And stunned him with the music of the spheres. Pope.

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. Thomson.

The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

Heavy; dull; sluggish. "The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course." Sir W. Scott.

Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

f, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color. "Tarnished lace." Fuller. Used also figuratively; as, to tarnish one's honor.

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.

Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.

Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. Testaceous animals (Zoöl.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.…

Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. Shak. His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. Shak.