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[ moh-shuhn-lis ] / ˈmoʊ ʃən lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR motionless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivewithout motion: a motionless statue. Origin of motionlessFirst recorded in 1590–1600; motion + -less SYNONYMS FOR motionlessstill, stationary, unmoving, inert, stable, fixed, quiescent, quiet. SEE SYNONYMS FOR motionless ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR motionlessactive. SEE ANTONYMS FOR motionless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM motionlessmo·tion·less·ly, adverbmo·tion·less·ness, nounWords nearby motionlessmotif, motile, motility, motion, motion capture, motionless, motion picture, motion sickness, motion study, motion work, motivate Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for motionlessEven motionless, their engines silent, they project an energy that belies the room’s hushed stillness –like a pack of lions poised to pounce. How data helped keep Red Bull’s F1 team on track during the pandemic|Jeremy Kahn|September 19, 2020|Fortune He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless. Creed Singer Scott Stapp’s Fall From Grace: From 40 Million Albums Sold to Living in a Holiday Inn|Marlow Stern|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut. The Original Ebola Hunter|Abby Haglage|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Stout, overdressed women with heavy jewels sit statue-like and motionless as their hair is dyed, fanned, backcombed and sprayed. Russian Politicians Flaunt '80s Style At The Kremlin|Anna Nemtsova|October 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But put a frog in the middle of a field of motionless, recently killed flies and it will starve. Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna|Jimmy So|April 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST Her body is motionless, her pale torso exposed to the blows from boots and truncheons. Egyptian Military Police Beating a Female Protestor Produces Fury and an Apology|Sarah A. Topol|December 21, 2011|DAILY BEAST Shaughnessy, with a haggard glance at the motionless form on the floor, rose and walked uncertainly to an easy chair. Like a young priestess she stood, motionless save for the sudden quiver of a limb, a quick pulse-flutter in the rounded throat. The Mystery of Choice|Robert William Chambers He looked round at the motionless figures reverently standing with bowed heads. Lone Pine|R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend Under his motionless form I wrote, "The good services of this friend I shall ever keep in grateful remembrance." The House of Martha|Frank R. Stockton For some little time he sat there motionless, in a sort of mental haze. The Escape of Mr. Trimm|Irvin S. Cobb
British Dictionary definitions for motionless
adjectivenot moving; absolutely still Derived forms of motionlessmotionlessly, adverbmotionlessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to motionlessimmobile, inert, steadfast, frozen, lifeless, stagnant, paralyzed, stationary, dead, deathly, firm, fixed, inanimate, numb, palsied, petrified, quiescent, quiet, spellbound, stable |