motionless
/ˈməʊʃ(ə)nləs
/adjective
Not moving; stationary: an eagle hung almost motionless close to the ground...
- The victim's partner lay unconscious and motionless on the pavement for seven minutes after the attack.
- Hundreds of people were standing, motionless and quiet, watching the screens with open mouths.
- When I got to him he wasn't breathing, and was lying motionless on the road.
Synonyms
unmoving, still, stationary, stock-still, at a standstill, immobile, immovable, static, at rest, halted, stopped, not moving a muscle, rooted to the spot, transfixed, paralysed, frozen, inert, inanimate, quiescent, lifeless
Derivatives
motionlessly
/ adverb ...- But they gazed motionlessly at some far-away nothingness.
- I sit there motionlessly, hands on the steering wheel.
- All I could see was blood everywhere, with my father lying motionlessly on the floor, the greater part of his body covered in the ash from the fire.