Stative verbs list

Here is a comprehensive list of Stative verbs:

to adore to fit to please
to agree to hate to possess
to appear (seem) to have (possession) to promise
to appreciate to hear to realise
to be to imagine to recognize
to believe to include to remember
to belong to to involve to resemble
to concern to know to satisfy
to consist of to lack to see
to contain to like to seem
to cost to loathe to smell
to deny to look (seem) to sound
to depend on to love to suppose
to deserve to matter to surprise
to detest to mean to taste
to disagree to measure to think (opinion)
to dislike to mind to understand
to doubt to need to want
to equal to owe to weigh
to feel to own to wish
Some of these verbs can also be used as active verbs but when we talk about permanent situations, feelings, opinions, wishes and the senses they are stative verbs.
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