Thesaurus / motionless
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synonyms for motionless
- frozen
- immobile
- inert
- lifeless
- paralyzed
- stagnant
- stationary
- steadfast
- apoplectic
- at a standstill
- at rest
- becalmed
- dead
- deadlocked
- deathly
- firm
- fixed
- halted
- immotile
- inanimate
- numb
- palsied
- petrified
- quiescent
- quiet
- spellbound
- stable
- stalled
- standing
- static
- still
- stock-still
- torpid
- transfixed
- unmovable
- unmoved
- unmoving
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We know from fMRI studies that a consistent wiggle of a finger or blinking “yes” at the right questions may reveal an internal life inside a largely motionless body.
MY LAB USES ULTRASOUND TO STIMULATE UNCONSCIOUS PATIENTS - FACTS SO ROMANTICJOSHUA CAINJUNE 15, 2021NAUTILUSBy then, Floyd was motionless, unconscious and reportedly had no pulse.
DEREK CHAUVIN’S GUILTY AND SO IS THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEMGOLDIE TAYLORAPRIL 20, 2021THE DAILY BEASTIn the first, called quiet sleep, the octopuses are pale and motionless with the pupils of their eyes narrowed to slits.
OCTOPUS SLEEP INCLUDES A FRENZIED, COLORFUL, ‘ACTIVE’ STAGELAURA SANDERSMARCH 25, 2021SCIENCE NEWSShe hung up the phone and stood motionless for just a moment.
THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT TO DEFEND THEIR HOMES AGAINST ISISGAYLE TZEMACH LEMMONFEBRUARY 22, 2021TIMEThe chair keeps moving constantly, and with your eyes shut, you think you’re motionless.
THIS SURPRISINGLY COMMON FLIGHT ISSUE CONTRIBUTED TO KOBE BRYANT’S HELICOPTER CRASHROB VERGERFEBRUARY 11, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEIn two hours, we found 17 colugos, all hugging trees, motionless in the daylight.
ON A COOL NIGHT IN MALAYSIA, SCIENTISTS TRACK MYSTERIOUS COLUGOS ACROSS THE TREETOPSYAO-HUA LAWNOVEMBER 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWSEven motionless, their engines silent, they project an energy that belies the room’s hushed stillness –like a pack of lions poised to pounce.
HOW DATA HELPED KEEP RED BULL’S F1 TEAM ON TRACK DURING THE PANDEMICJEREMY KAHNSEPTEMBER 19, 2020FORTUNEA lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWhen he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSMotionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.
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