moveless

American  

[moov-lis] / ˈmuv lɪs /

adjective

1. lacking movement.

   the still night with its moveless branches.

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Other Word Forms

• movelessly adverb
• movelessness noun

Etymology

Origin of moveless

First recorded in 1570–80; move + -less

Example Sentences

A square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fire had burned down long since and there was no light but those strips and slants of dimness creeping across the circle, sketching out a face, a hand, a moveless back.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

At dead of night I seem to see Thy fair, pale features constantly Upturned in silent prayer for me, O'er moveless clasped hands, Isabel!

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

The sight of this haven at rest, shut in by the restful sea and by great moveless hills, a calm within a calm, aroused profound emotion.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

But for the moveless face upon the pillow beside her, she must have rushed away to hide herself in thicket or cave—perhaps in the river-bed from which she had been rescued so lately.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion