UNMOVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmoved mean? 

• UNMOVED (adjective)
  The adjective UNMOVED has 2 senses:

1. emotionally unmoved

2. being in the original position; not having been moved

  Familiarity information: UNMOVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMOVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally unmoved

Synonyms:

unaffected; unmoved; untouched

Context example:

always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable

Also:

unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

Antonym:

moved (being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being in the original position; not having been moved

Synonyms:

in-situ; in situ; unmoved

Context example:

an in-situ investigator

Similar:

unaltered; unchanged (remaining in an original state)

 Context examples 

This very hour our eyes have been shocked with that which would have left you unmoved.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I hope we are friends," was the unmoved reply; while he still watched the rising of the moon, which he had been contemplating as I approached.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Dashwood did not hear unmoved the vindication of her former favourite.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In order to speak he had to take the dagger from his mouth, but in all else he remained unmoved.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was certainly a surprise to me, and gave me a considerable shock, but Van Helsing was unmoved.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This vocal exercise usually conquered Meg, but John sat as unmoved as the post which is popularly believed to be deaf.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While we were ascending, they forgot several times what they were about, and left me to myself, till their memories were again roused by their flappers; for they appeared altogether unmoved by the sight of my foreign habit and countenance, and by the shouts of the vulgar, whose thoughts and minds were more disengaged.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

With such means in his power he had a right to be listened to; and though Mrs. Norris could fidget about the room, and disturb everybody in quest of two needlefuls of thread or a second-hand shirt button, in the midst of her nephew's account of a shipwreck or an engagement, everybody else was attentive; and even Lady Bertram could not hear of such horrors unmoved, or without sometimes lifting her eyes from her work to say, Dear me! how disagreeable!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Now I am in the garden at the back, beyond the yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are—a very preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket, while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unmoved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)