Unmoved

adj

adj ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not physically moved.
  2. 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. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being in the original position; not having been moved wordnet
  2. 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.

Related phrases

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