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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motionless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Four motionless figures stood on the pier.
▪ I could see my father standing motionless in the doorway.
▪ Kemp sat motionless as the verdict was read.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adam lay slumped and motionless beside her.
▪ Hughes stood motionless on the porch.
▪ Katherine sat motionless looking at Philippe.
▪ She is momentarily motionless, statuesque, queenly.
▪ Something, though ... something tall, something like an animal ... quite motionless ... She approached it cautiously.
▪ The interior was gloomy; tobacco smoke hung motionless in the thin air.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motionless

Motionless \Mo"tion*less\, a. Without motion; being at rest.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motionless

1590s, from motion (n.) + -less. Related: Motionlessly; motionlessness.

Wiktionary
motionless

a. At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.

WordNet
motionless

adj. not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" [syn: inactive, static, still]

Usage examples of "motionless".

As with horizontally extended radicles, of which the tip has been cut off or destroyed, the part which ought to bend most remains motionless for many hours or days, although exposed at right angles to the full influence of geotropism, we must conclude that the tip alone is sensitive to this power, and transmits some influence or stimulus to the adjoining parts, causing them to bend.

I was too awestruck to know fear, too adulatory in my awe, but I knew the open area of the beach was not safe, and I hurried away from Espinal and the motionless column of blackhearts.

He glanced up at Ulaf, then looked back down at Alise, who lay limp and motionless in his arms.

Radado formed the western end of a great ancipital migratory route which stretched across the whole of Campannlat, the ultima Thule to which the creatures came in the summer of every Great Year, to go about their unfathomable rituals, or simply to squat motionless, staring across the Cadmer Straits towards Hespagorat, towards a destination unknown to other life forms.

And on the angareb the figure beneath the black covering lay as motionless as ever, as inexpressive of life and feeling, though the cold spray broke continually upon its face.

Her heart pounding, Angelique stood motionless where he had set her down.

For a long time she sat in dreary apathy, almost as motionless as the mossy rock beneath her, and was conscious only of her throbbing forehead and aching heart.

Corvax was left sitting alone on his side of the interview room, facing the Arachno soldiers who stayed as inscrutable and motionless as statues.

Seeing Asch lying motionless on the straw, apparently asleep, he tried to be as quiet as possible.

Her father had taught her a type of Auric shield that would make her seem invisible, but it only worked if she remained motionless in front of a plain background.

He raised the staff, the eye in the bole glittering at Regis Aurum, holding him motionless, transfixed, while Thayne poured what thoughts he had left into the bole until he could see Regis through all its power and its eye.

I tried to stand motionless, still keeping my eyes averted from him as I struggled to suppress the fear that was shaking me.

We stood awed, watching that poor, pale face, on every line of which was written stunned, motionless, impassive grief.

Atle saw his intention, and bade him go in search of a weapon, promising to remain motionless during his absence.

On the large stove of porcelain inlaid with copper baguettes the statue of a woman, draped to the chin, gazed motionless on the room full of life.