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Grammar : Adj
Spell : weyv
Phonetic Transcription : weɪv


Definition of waveless

Origin :
  • "move back and forth," Old English wafian "to wave with the hands" (related to wæfre "wavering, restless"), from Proto-Germanic *wab- (cf. Old Norse vafra "to hover about," Middle High German waben "to wave, undulate"), possibly from PIE root *webh- "to move to and fro; to weave" (see weave (v.)). Meaning "to make a sign by a wave of the hand" is from 1510s. Related: Waved; waving.
  • I was much further out than you thoughtAnd not waving but drowning.[Stevie Smith]
  • As in calm : adj peaceful, quiet (inanimate)
Example sentences :
  • The sea was blue now, quiescent, waveless; there was only the eternal roll.
  • Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
  • The Island Rock appeared to be sinking in a waveless sea of milk.
  • Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
  • A tide flowed over her character, a waveless tide of reserve.
  • Extract from : « The Return Of The Soul » by Robert S. Hichens
  • The sea, protected on our right by lines of islands, was waveless.
  • Extract from : « The Near East » by Robert Hichens
  • Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.
  • Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford
  • The vast slopes of the desert of Libya reach down to its waveless waters.
  • Extract from : « Bella Donna » by Robert Hichens
  • Behind the swarthy Mountain the sun had gone down in waveless gold.
  • Extract from : « Summer » by Edith Wharton
  • On the other, the waveless ocean slept in the calm of the night.
  • Extract from : « The Moonstone » by Wilkie Collins
  • Seldom have I heard a sadder sound than the boom of those cannons through the silent forest and over the waveless water.
  • Extract from : « Captain Canot » by Brantz Mayer
  • He has never given promise in Scripture of an unclouded day—uninterrupted sunshine—a waveless, stormless sea.
  • Extract from : « The Hart and the Water-Brooks; » by John R. Macduff

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