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UNMOVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being in the original position; not having been moved
Example:
an in-situ investigator
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unaltered; unchanged (remaining in an original state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Emotionally unmoved
Example:
always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable
Synonyms:
unaffected; unmoved; untouched
Classified under:
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)
Context examples:
Ah, even now I can scarce speak of it unmoved.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Neither could I be wholly unmoved, after comparing the living with the dead, when I considered how all these pure native virtues were prostituted for a piece of money by their grand-children; who, in selling their votes and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption that can possibly be learned in a court.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Nay; the lady hath seen something of the work of war,” said Tiphaine coming forth, as white, as grave, and as unmoved as ever.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I (these were his expressions) could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof, he said, some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Even the heavy John was not unmoved by the beauty of their road, while the bowman whistled lustily or sang snatches of French love songs in a voice which might have scared the most stout-hearted maiden that ever hearkened to serenade.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went back to the drawing room and thought for an instant that they were chance visitors, all these official people who suddenly filled it. But as they drew back the sheet and looked at Gatsby with unmoved eyes, his protest continued in my brain.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
