stagnant pool
Motionless water body
A stagnant pool is a body of water with no current or flow, often accumulating algae, insects, and foul odors.
The phrase extends to any situation marked by inactivity or lack of progress: The department had become a stagnant pool of outdated ideas.
Standing water breeds mosquitoes; stagnant institutions breed complacency.
- murkyDark and unclear
- dead waterMotionless tidal zone
- pondSmall still body
- still pondUndisturbed small body of water
- swampWaterlogged land with vegetation
algae · mosquitoes · fetid · brackish · scum · stillness · green · water lilies · decay · slime · marsh · dank · motionless · reeds · muck · standing water · foul · rot
- stagnationstandstill, stasis, deadlock, stalemate, gridlock
- still watersstill pond, still water, dead water, millpond, mill pond
- backwaterseddy, still water, backwash, slough, oxbow
- backwater lakesoxbow lake, billabong, dead arm
stagnant poolrunning water
Plumbed household flow
babbling brook · rapids · waterfall · torrent · mountain stream
stagnant poolartesian well
Naturally pressurized groundwater source
living water · clear stream · pristine waters · freshwater spring · mineral spring
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