motionless

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
motion/ˈməʊʃn/

▶noun

• 1 the action or process of moving or being moved.

• 2 a movement or gesture.

• 3 a piece of moving mechanism.

• 4 a formal proposal put to a legislature or committee.

  ■ Law an application for a rule or order of court.

• 5 Brit. an evacuation of the bowels.

▶verb direct (someone) with a gesture.

– phrases
go through the motions

• 1 do something perfunctorily.

• 2 simulate an action.

– derivatives
motional adjective,
motionless adjective,
motionlessly adverb.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. motio(n-), from movere ‘to move’.