UNMOVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmoving mean? 

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

1. not in motion

2. not arousing emotions

  Familiarity information: UNMOVING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMOVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not in motion

Synonyms:

nonmoving; unmoving

Similar:

inactive; motionless; static; still (not in physical motion)

becalmed (rendered motionless for lack of wind)

fixed; rigid; set (fixed and unmoving)

frozen; rooted; stock-still (absolutely still)

inert (unable to move or resist motion)

sitting (not moving and therefore easy to attack)

stationary (standing still)

Also:

immobile (not capable of movement or of being moved)

Attribute:

motion (a state of change)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not arousing emotions

Similar:

unaffecting (not arousing affect)

Also:

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

unexciting; unstimulating (not stimulating)

Antonym:

moving (arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion)

 Context examples 

He put his hands on the Professor's shoulder, and laying his head on his breast, cried for a while silently, whilst we stood unmoving.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But greater than that, to the wolf-cub, was their mastery over things not alive; their capacity to communicate motion to unmoving things; their capacity to change the very face of the world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)