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motionless

[ moh-shuhn-lis ]

adjective

  1. without motion:

    a motionless statue.

    Synonyms: quiet, quiescent, fixed, stable, inert, unmoving, stationary, still

    Antonyms: active



motionless

/ ˈməʊʃənlɪs /

adjective

  1. not moving; absolutely still


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmotionlessness, noun
  • ˈmotionlessly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • motion·less·ly adverb
  • motion·less·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of motionless1

First recorded in 1590–1600; motion + -less

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Example Sentences

We know from fMRI studies that a consistent wiggle of a finger or blinking “yes” at the right questions may reveal an internal life inside a largely motionless body.

By then, Floyd was motionless, unconscious and reportedly had no pulse.

In the first, called quiet sleep, the octopuses are pale and motionless with the pupils of their eyes narrowed to slits.

She hung up the phone and stood motionless for just a moment.

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The chair keeps moving constantly, and with your eyes shut, you think you’re motionless.

He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.

He remained motionless in the next shot but the fear of what was to follow was etched on his face.

“He immediately dropped to the ground in front of the door where he remained motionless,” the criminal complaint says.

Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.

I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th Avenue in lower Manhattan.

A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.

When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.

Motionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.

The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.

The major and Hicks, who stood not far from him, were both unusually pale in the face, as they gazed motionless before them.

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