English Explanatory Dictionary

stationary

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Not moving.
  2. Incapable of being moved.
  3. Unchanging.
noun
  1. One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
  2. Misspelling of stationery.

Pronunciation

/ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stationary.wav stāʹshə-nĕr'ē /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/

Word forms

stationary stationaries

Etymology

From Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from stō (“to stand”). Doublet of stationer.

Synonyms

at rest dull impassive inanimate lifeless motionless sedent sedentary stationary still stock-still torpid unmoved unmoving fixed immobile unmoveable immotile immovable inert sessile static rigid stuck unmovable changeless constant immutable unchanging equal nonchanging unaltering unvarying

Antonyms

in motion moving on the move afoot animate astir cursory dynamic mobile on the wing under sail unstill moveable ambulatory kinetic motile motive movable vagile changing mutable variable changeable changeful changeling everchanging fickle fluid inconstant labile moody shiftable up-and-down unstable volatile wavering

Related words

immobile stationary point stationery

Derived words

cyclostationary geostationary hydrostationary nonstationary non-stationary photostationary quasistationary semistationary stationarily stationariness stationarity stationary air stationary bicycle stationary bike stationary distribution stationary engine stationary front stationary phase stationary phase approximation stationary point stationary wave strict-sense stationary unstationary
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