waveless

as incalm

Synonyms for waveless

adj peaceful, quiet (inanimate)

Antonyms for waveless

calmer

adjective. peaceful, quiet (inanimate)

Word Origin & History

"move back and forth," Old English wafian "to wave with the hands" (related to wæfre "wavering, restless"), from Proto-Germanic *wab- (cf. Old Norse vafra "to hover about," Middle High German waben "to wave, undulate"), possibly from PIE root *webh- "to move to and fro; to weave" (see weave (v.)). Meaning "to make a sign by a wave of the hand" is from 1510s. Related: Waved; waving.

Example Sentences for waveless

The sea was blue now, quiescent, waveless; there was only the eternal roll.

The Island Rock appeared to be sinking in a waveless sea of milk.

A tide flowed over her character, a waveless tide of reserve.

The sea, protected on our right by lines of islands, was waveless.

Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.

The vast slopes of the desert of Libya reach down to its waveless waters.

Behind the swarthy Mountain the sun had gone down in waveless gold.

On the other, the waveless ocean slept in the calm of the night.

Seldom have I heard a sadder sound than the boom of those cannons through the silent forest and over the waveless water.

He has never given promise in Scripture of an unclouded day—uninterrupted sunshine—a waveless, stormless sea.

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