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MOTIONLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not in physical motion
Example:
the inertia of an object at rest
Synonyms:
inactive; motionless; static; still
Classified under:
Similar:
nonmoving; unmoving (not in motion)
Derivation:
motionlessness (a state of no motion or movement)
Context examples:
We crouched as motionless as the trunks behind us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sight of it made her start; and, forgetting everything else, she stood gazing on it in motionless wonder, while these thoughts crossed her: This is strange indeed!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I neither spoke nor looked at anyone, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Lucy lay motionless, and did not seem to have strength to speak, so for a while we were all silent.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
For half a day he lay motionless, fighting off unconsciousness and waiting for the thing that was to feed upon him and upon which he wished to feed.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
She made no reply, but sat, gazing straight before her, dry-eyed and motionless, but with an ache in the throat which Martin divined so strongly that it made his own throat ache.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The sexton, however, remained standing motionless that the boy might think he was a ghost.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Just before him Tom lay motionless upon the sward; but the murderer minded him not a whit, cleansing his blood-stained knife the while upon a wisp of grass.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
His head and arms and legs were jointed upon his body, but he stood perfectly motionless, as if he could not stir at all.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
