motionless
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmoʊʃənlɛs/
audio (US): (file)
Adjective
motionless (not comparable)
- at rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:
- Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
Translations
at rest, not moving
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