1. (a.) Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
2. (a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
3. (a.) Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
4. (n.) One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
Thesaurus Entries
abiding, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, at anchor, changeless, constant, contemplative, continuing, dead-still, do-nothing, dormant, durable, enduring, firm, fixed, frozen, idle, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, inactive, inert, inflexible, intact, inviolate, irremovable, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lasting, meditative, motionless, moveless, neuter, neutral, out of commission, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pat, permanent, perpetual, persistent, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, sedentary, solid, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, statuelike, staying, steadfast, still, stock-still, sustained, torpid, unactive, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unemployed, unfading, unfailing, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vegetable, vegetative
