ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Stirless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈstəːləs/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Stirless is an adjective meaning (archaic or poetic) Motionless, still.

Meaning

(archaic or poetic) Motionless, still.

Example Sentences

For there it lies so tranquil, so beloved, / All that it hath of Life with us is living; / So gentle, stirless, helpless, and unmoved, / And all unconscious of the joy 't is giving [...].
Like one dead she sat and waited, Listening to the stirless silence, Ages in a second, till, Lightly leaping, came her lover, And, still smiling, laid the sweet Snow-white blossom at her feet.
Often, after an active morning, she would spend a sunny afternoon in lying stirless on the turf, at the foot of some tree of friendly umbrage: no society did she need but that of Caroline, and it sufficed if she were within call; no spectacle did she ask but that of the deep blue sky, and such cloudlets as sailed afar and aloft across its span; no sound but that of the bee's hum, the leaf's whisper."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unstirring, stone-still, stock-still, impassive, stillsome, stagnant.

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