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What is the adjective for motion?

What's the adjective for motion? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb motion which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

motile
  1. (biology) Having the power to move spontaneously.
  2. Producing motion.
  3. (psychology) Of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. moving, mobile, movable, advancing, kinetic, driving, going, running, unfixed, progressing, roaming, roving, flying, nomadic, shifting, traversing, in motion, on the move, walking, motive, locomotive, motor, kinematic, motional, dashing, darting, racing, rushing, scurrying, travelling, journeying, proceeding, coming, midway, bound, traveling, passing, en route, transported, during transport, along the road, in transit, heading toward, en voyage, along the way, on the go, making headway, pressing on, in passage, on board … more
motionable
  1. Able to be moved or set in motion; movely.
  2. Able to be motioned.
  3. Examples:
      4. “Sway, flowers, leaning like reeds in a wave, More motionable than insects.”
motionless
  1. At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. still, stationary, immobile, unmoving, inert, static, lifeless, stagnant, frozen, standing, stopped, fixed, paralysed, inanimate, transfixed, halted, stable, dead, paralyzed, torpid, immovable, numb, deadlocked, stalled, unmoved, firm, immotile, petrified, steadfast, unmovable, stock-still, at rest, at a standstill, rooted to the spot, not moving a muscle, deathly still, inactive, nonmoving, rooted, quiescent, dormant, unstirring, not moving, parked, passive, like a statue, at a halt, immobilized, idle, as if turned to stone … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Yet this might well be called a long time for him to remain fixed as a motionless statue in one place.”
      “There was a relaxing, and strangely hypnotic, quality to the motionless waters of the lake.”
      “They needed to imagine a special motionless container in order to understand such physical concepts as velocity and acceleration.”
motional
  1. Of or pertaining to motion.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. motive, kinetic, moving, impelling, motor, operative, propulsive, activating, driving, motivating, propelling, motile, locomotive, kinematic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The additional potential for EPR technology can be realized in studies of the motional properties of atoms trapped within the nanotube channel.”
      “Its final motional state thus contains a which path information, telling away the trajectory of the particle.”
      “For precision machining it is therefore important to measure and compensate motional deviations.”
motioned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of motion
  2. Synonyms:
      3. gestured, signalled, signaled, waved, beckoned, directed, gesticulated, nodded, signed, flagged, indicated, guided, invited, moved, signalised, signalized … more
motioning
  1. present participle of motion
  2. Synonyms:
      3. gesturing, signalling, signaling, waving, beckoning, directing, gesticulating, nodding, signing, flagging, indicating, guiding, inviting, moving, signalising, signalizing … more
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