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moveless

/moov-lis/US // ˈmuv lɪs //

无活动,不动的,无活动的,无动于衷

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking movement: the still night with its moveless branches.

Examples

  • Then on level, all but moveless wing, he sailed away toward the horizon.

  • But Mrs. Gammit in the vivid moonlight saw a fine cloud of pepper sinking downwards slowly on the moveless air.

  • Alice stood misty eyed and moveless, till the steamer passed from sight.

  • For nearly an hour he waited, moveless, save for his ranging eyes, as the rock on which he leaned.

  • He went to sleep between fallen moveless pillars of a ruin older than any world that history knows.