Definition of stationary

• a. - Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
• a. - Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• a. - Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
• n. - One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.