Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from waves; undisturbed; unagitated; still.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated.
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- adjective Free from
waves
Etymologies
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Examples
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The civilian labourers, with their horsedrawn sledges, were beginning to arrive, each vehicle, as it appeared through the mist, resembling some ghostly fantastic craft cleaving a tedious path through a waveless ocean.
Work Camp 10760 L 2010
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On the waveless water the canoe stopped almost instantly, the hull turning gently toward shore.
Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010
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So I have to imagine its waveless water lapping the shore.
LAST DAY OF ESTHER LEVIN Deborah Jiang Stein 2010
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The BP oil spill could have happened on any surf-rich coastline instead of the mostly waveless gulf, making any of our local surf breaks uninhabitable for months or years.
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The surface of the spring was smooth and waveless, but the water wasn't still; I could feel small stirrings, currents running through the body of the pool like nerve impulses.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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On the waveless water the canoe stopped almost instantly, the hull turning gently toward shore.
Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010
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I can and will resist it precisely because the so-called first wave of feminists in my country, women I know and invoke simply as Susan B. and Sojourner, still speak Truth to Power, in heroic yet life-size terms that are timeless, ageless, and if you'll pardon my pun, waveless.
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Every American aircraft within range and capable of reconnaissance duty was now racing towards the now waveless continental United States to ascertain the full extent of the disaster.
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Next Fall and Slipping illustrate that no marriage -- different-sex, same-sex -- is smooth sailing across a waveless sea, no day at the (gay or straight) beach.
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"Daughter of Leda, in addition to my first letter I now send thee word not to despatch thy daughter to Euboea's embosomed wing, to the to the waveless bay of Aulis; for after all we wiltlelebrate our child's wedding at another time."
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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