motionlessly Definition

motion
noun

1. The act, state, process or manner of moving.

Thesaurus: change, movement, act, action, passage, flow, flux, transit, travel, mobility.
2. A single movement, especially one made by the body; a gesture or action.
3. The ability to move a part of the body.
4. A proposal for formal discussion at a meeting.

Thesaurus: suggestion, proposal, proposition, recommendation, consideration.
5. law.
An application made to a judge during a court case for an order or ruling to be made.
(Brit)
6a. An act of discharging faeces from the bowels;
(Brit)
6b. Faeces.

Form: motions

verb

tr & intr
motioned, motioning
1. To give a signal or direction.

Thesaurus: gesture, sign, signal, gesticulate, beckon, wave.
Form: motion to someone (often)

Derivative: motionless
adj

Not moving or able to move
Thesaurus: still, unmoving, dead, inert, stagnant, calm, at rest, inanimate, paralysed, static, transfixed, firm, unmovable, fixed, rigid, stationary, frozen; Antonym: moving.

Derivative: motionlessly
adverb

Idiom: go through the motions

To pretend to do something; to act something out.

To perform a task mechanically or half-heartedly.

Idiom: in motion

Moving; operating.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin motio, from movere to move.