| 单词 | motionless |
| 释义 | motionless (once / 349 pages) adj If you're motionless, you're completely still, not moving a muscle. Your barber might instruct you to remain motionless while he trims the hair around your ears. Anything that's motionless doesn't move — a statue is motionless, and your bike is motionless lying in the driveway until you climb on it and start pedaling. Photographs are motionless, while video records movement. Your new puppy might be a constantly wiggling, jumping ball of motion until she becomes exhausted and falls sound asleep, motionless. Motion, or movement, comes from a Latin root, motionem, "a movement" or "an emotion." WORD FAMILYmotionless: motionlessly, motionlessness+/motion: motional, motioned, motioning, motionless, motions USAGE EXAMPLESShe and her son walked slowly toward each other and locked in a silent and almost motionless embrace. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Modern office chairs are designed to allow us to sit more or less motionless for hours on end. Slate(Dec 21, 2016) "For several anxious hours we lay, motionless and helpless, outstretched on the ground." Science Magazine(Dec 15, 2016) adj not in physical motion Syn inactive, static, still nonmoving, unmoving not in motion |
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