Synonyms for motionless
mo·tion·less

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1. inactive, motionless, static, stilladjective

   not in physical motion

   "the inertia of an object at rest"

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

   Antonyms:
   moving

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1. choke (verb)

   to stop something from being done

   the assistants were all choked on the extra assignment the boss had given them

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

2. stone-still

   adj. motionless-doesn't move too much

   why are stone-sill?

   Submitted by rinat on June 26, 2016  

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1. motionlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   still, quiescent, stationary, at rest, at a stand, stock still, standing still

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1. motionlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent

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1. List of paraphrases for "motionless":

   immobile, nonmotile, static

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How to use motionless in a sentence?

1. Ben Crump:

   There's video that the family understands exists, that after seven minutes of him laying motionless on the ground, they did put him in handcuffs, so we're demanding that the other police bodycam video be released so the world can see that they continued to show disrespect to unarmed Black people.

2. 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?

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

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

4. C. S. Lewis:

   Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

5. Medaria Arradondo:

   There is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get George Floyd under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when George Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.