Motions Synonyms and Antonyms

Show, express or direct through movement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. signals
  2. gestures
  3. stirs
  4. signalizes
  5. signs
  6. gesticulates
  7. moves
Antonyms:
  1. rests
  2. reposes
A movement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. movements
  2. signals
  3. gestures
  4. acts
  5. ports
  6. signs
  7. gaits
  8. changes
  9. activities
  10. actions
  11. indications
  12. impulses
Antonyms:
  1. rests
  2. reposes
  3. stillnesses
  4. inertias
A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. propositions
  2. questions
  3. considerations
  4. suggestions
  5. proposals
A change of position that does not entail a change of location
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. moves
  2. movements
  3. passages
  4. stirs
The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gestures

Motions Sentence Examples

  • I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers.

  • The force which brings the atoms together in the forms of objects is inherent in the elements, and all their motions are necessary.

  • The rest of the time, he just went through the motions.

  • They went through the motions of checking all the hotels and flophouses in the city, but no one had seen Homer in the days preceding his murder.

  • I used to sit in my mother's lap all day long and keep my hands on her face because it amused me to feel the motions of her lips; and I moved my lips, too, although I had forgotten what talking was.

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