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Antonyms for motionlessmo·tion·less

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Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 2 votes

  1. inactive, motionless, static, stilladjective

    not in physical motion

    "the inertia of an object at rest"

    Antonyms:
    moving

    Synonyms:
    static, smooth, placid, inactive, electrostatic, tranquil, soundless, unruffled, still, quiet, unchanging, silent, noneffervescent, nonoperational, passive, stable, dormant

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.7 / 3 votes

  1. motionlessadjective

    Synonyms:
    stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent

How to use motionless in a sentence?

  1. Michael Baden:

    We can see after a little bit less than four minutes that Mr. Floyd is motionless, lifeless.

  2. Titus Livius:

    The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

  3. Majdi Banura:

    To be honest, as I was filming, I had hoped that she will be alive, but I knew seeing her motionless she had been killed, her picture doesn't leave my life and memory, everything I say or do or touch, I see her.

  4. Scott C. Holstad:

    pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

  5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    Life is in infinite motion; at the same time it is motionless.

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