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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmoved
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Unmoved by his pleas, Lucy strolled out of the room
▪ How can anyone remain unmoved by pictures of starving children on our TV screens?
▪ The defendant's claims of self-defense left the jury unmoved.
▪ Walter seemed unmoved by the tragedy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He alone of all the Lionisers was unmoved by illusions of great men.
▪ He was quite unmoved, totally untouched by the man's obviously severe injuries.
▪ It was nevertheless something of a relief to find Fordham notably unmoved by such distant calls to glory.
▪ Recruiters banged at their drums, yet crowds of young men filled the streets, unmoved and unresponsive.
▪ Shannon had watched the encounter with interest, while remaining singularly unmoved herself.
▪ The two detectives watched him, unmoved.
▪ You smile and remain unmoved, she said, just like father.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unmoved

Unmoved \Un*moved"\, a. Not moved; fixed; firm; unshaken; calm; apathetic. -- Un*mov"ed*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmoved

late 14c., "not affected by emotion or excitement," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of move (v.). Meaning "fixed in position" is from mid-15c.

Wiktionary
unmoved

a. 1 not physically moved 2 not affected emotionally, or not showing emotion 3 not sympathetic; uncaring

WordNet
unmoved
  1. adj. emotionally unmoved; "always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable" [syn: unmoved(p)] [ant: moved(p)]

  2. being in the original position; not having been moved; "the archeologists could date the vase because it was in situ"; "an in-situ investigator" [syn: in-situ]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "unmoved".

In the calmest way the heroic General instructed them to amputate it, again remaining unmoved throughout the operation.

And de Batz walked on unmoved by what he saw and heard, swinging his cane and looking satisfied.

The Legionnaire, who was the only one apart from Tiny and Porta who seemed unmoved by the crazy cavortings of the sled, patted the boy condescendingly on the back.

I was face-down in a postoperative sling so all I could see was a communications station moving, while my own body hung unmoved.

I watched the domestic drama with an equally unmoved Strome, content to let other guys rush in to bust things up.

They floated, rather than walked, up to the royal dais, and there prostrated themselves two by two before the King, whose fiery glance rested upon them more carelessly than tenderly,--and as they rose, they threw back their veils, displaying to full view such exquisite faces, such languishing, brilliant eyes, such snowwhite necks and arms, such graceful voluptuous forms, that Theos caught at the tapestry near him in reeling dazzlement of sight and sense, and wondered how Sah-luma seated tranquilly in the reflective attitude he had assumed, could maintain so unmoved and indifferent a demeanor.

Alone among those present Marguerite Blakeney and these Comtesse de Tournay had remained seemingly unmoved.

W, though, seemed unfazed and unmoved, more concerned with the brand of toothpaste the British prime minister was using than with changing his antiabortion position.

Was it really possible, thought Bernardine, that Robert Allitsen was the only one there unconcerned and unmoved?

February and March meetings of the Natural History Society of Brno in 1865, the audience of about forty listened politely but was conspicuously unmoved, even though the breeding of plants was a matter of great practical interest to many of the members.

At others I would find him on the campstool, sitting in his gray sleeping suit and with his cropped dark hair like a patient, unmoved convict.

Unlike many of his academic colleagues Jack never pretended to be unmoved by treasure, and for a moment he let the thrill of holding several kilogrammes of gold wash through him.

He went and sat quietly by Lady Cres swell after that, and even the arrival of Mrs Smith and her kittens, carried out in their box to take the cooler air after tea, left him unmoved.

King and him, Dr. Goldsmith remained unmoved upon a sopha at some distance, affecting not to join in the least in the eager curiosity of the company.

I looked on with an unmoved expression, but it did not escape my notice that the guard did not sound the ceiling.