moving

The relocation of goods when transferring one's household, business, etc., to another location

Adjective

  1. That moves or move.
    • moving pictures

    Synonyms: dynamic mobile afoot animate astir cursory in motion moving on the move on the wing under sail unstill

    Antonyms: stationary

  2. Causing or evoking deep emotions.
    • 't was a moving letter, very moving! - 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse:
    • The last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways, No. 92220, a class "9F" 2-10-0, was named Evening Star at Swindon Works on March 18. […] Mr. R. F. Hanks, Chairman of the Western Area Board, British Transport...

    Synonyms: affecting touching

Forms

more moving most moving

Synonyms

affecting striking eloquent emotional persuasive poignant stunning touching expressive heartbreaking meaningful heartrending significant emotive gripping disturbing upsetting dramatic arousing soul stirring

Antonyms

nonemotional nonpersuasive nonexpressive nonmeaningful nonsignificant nonemotive nondisturbing nonarousing unaffecting uneloquent unpersuasive unpoignant unexpressive unmeaningful unemotive ungripping undisturbing unarousing

Hyponyms

alarming agonizing boring comforting lamentable frightening wearisome

Derived

earthmoving moving chicane movingly movingness moving pavement moving sofa problem needle-moving nonmoving self-moving unmoving

Noun

  1. The relocation of goods when transferring one's household, business, etc., to another location
  2. A causing of a movement
    • The rats' movings are willed movements.

Forms

movings

Derived

earth moving

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of move