unwalking

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ walking

Adjective[edit]

unwalking (not comparable)

  1. Not walking.
    • September 5, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
      I [] am so unwalking, that prospects are more agreeable to me when framed and glazed []
    • 1922, Mind, volume 31, page 442:
      So far as I can see, unconscious consciousness is in precisely the same position, logically, as unthinking thinking, or unwalking walking []
    • 1988, Sandra McPherson, Streamers, page 25:
      Your unwalking feet are stasis; your hands, motion, "mutually interested" in embroidering, earlier today, the "wicked, yellow-lidded eye" of a cross-stitched peacock.