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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | peaceful, quiet (inanimate) |
| Synonyms: | at a standstill, at peace, bland, breathless, breezeless, bucolic, cool, halcyon, harmonious, hushed, in order, inactive, low-key, mild, motionless, pacific, pastoral, placid, quiescent, reposeful, reposing, restful, rural, serene, slow, smooth, soothing, still, stormless, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, waveless, windless |
| Antonyms: | excited, fierce, frenzied, rough, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | motionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, not moving |
| Synonyms: | apoplectic, at a standstill, at rest, becalmed, dead, deadlocked, deathly, firm, fixed, frozen, halted, immobile, immotile, inanimate, inert, lifeless, numb, palsied, paralyzed, petrified, quiescent, quiet, spellbound, stable, stagnant, stalled, standing, static, stationary, steadfast, still, stock-still, torpid, transfixed, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, lively, mobile, moving |
| Main Entry: | static |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | motionless, changeless |
| Synonyms: | at a standstill, constant, deadlocked, fixed, format, gridlocked, immobile, immovable, inactive, inert, latent, passive, rigid, stabile, stable, stagnant, stalled, standing still, stationary, sticky, still, stopped, stuck, unchanging, unfluctuating, unmoving, unvarying |
| Antonyms: | active, changeable, continuous, mobile, moving, variable |
| Main Entry: | stationary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not moving; fixed |
| Synonyms: | anchored, at a standstill, immobile, inert, moored, motionless, nailed, nailed down, parked, pat, permanent, stable, stagnant, standing, static, stock-still, unmoving |
| Notes: | stationery is paper and office supplies; stationary indicates 'in a fixed position' |
| Antonyms: | mobile, moving, restless, unfixed, unsteady |
| Main Entry: | stock-still |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | motionless |
| Synonyms: | apoplectic, at a standstill, at rest, becalmed, dead*, deadlocked, deathly, firm, fixed, frozen, halted, immobile, immotile, inanimate, inert, lifeless, numb, palsied, paralyzed, petrified, quiescent, quiet, spellbound, stable, stagnant, stalled, standing, static*, stationary, steadfast, still, torpid, transfixed, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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