Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not moving; immovable; fixed.
Wiktionary
- adj. motionless
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Motionless; fixed.
Etymologies
- move + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They propped themselves in the snow beneath the moveless wind-vane, and waited.”
“After that, as we went on into the east, we saw no men; only the sleeping river, the moveless forest, and the White Silence of the North.”
“It came from one direction and all directions; something was happening back in the moveless, dripping jungle under the lazily eddying blanket of fog.”
“And thine olive, moveless features, transfixed as in a dream,”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
“He raised his face suddenly: its features were sharp and fixed; its hue was changed; it was livid and moveless, like a face cut in gray stone.”
“Hoar in the moonbeams stood those graceful trees casting their moveless shadows upon the grass, and in the background crowning the undulations of the distance, in masses, were piled those woods among which lay the solitary tomb where the remains of my beloved mother rested.”
“It was like the running of a spider over his sensitive, moveless body.”
“Indeed, I never saw face or figure so moveless, except in death.”
“Was that my child — that moveless decaying inanimation?”
“The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.”
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Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
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