Unmoved
adj ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Not physically moved.
- 2 Not affected emotionally, or not showing emotion.
"About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?"
- 3 Not sympathetic; uncaring.
"Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved."
- 1 being in the original position; not having been moved wordnet
- 2 emotionally unmoved wordnet
Example
More examples"Amid the waves is seen / an island, sacred to the Nereids' queen / and Neptune, lord of the AEgean wave, / which, floating once, Apollo fixed between / high Myconos and Gyarus, and gave / for man's resort, unmoved the blustering winds to brave."
Etymology
From un- + moved.
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