unpropelled
Lacking motive power
Unpropelled describes something moving without its own power source or external force driving it forward.
An unpropelled vessel drifts with the current; an unpropelled glider rides air currents after release.
The term appears in technical and regulatory contexts: unpropelled barges, unpropelled aircraft.
It contrasts with self-propelled or powered movement.
Not in motion
- motionlessLacking all movement
- immobileUnable to shift
- staticWithout motion or change
- inertInactive, physically or chemically
unmoving · at rest · becalmed · anchored · moored · parked · grounded · fixed
stationary
Not in motion
- motionlessLacking all movement
- immobileUnable to shift
- staticWithout motion or change
inert · unmoving · at rest · becalmed · anchored · moored · parked · grounded · fixed · idle
adrift
Floating without control
gliding · buoyant · becalmed · carried · borne · currents · tide · wind-driven · flotsam · jetsam
inertia
Resistance to altered motion
resistance · kinetic · velocity · friction · gravity · deceleration · drag · passive · reactive · conservation
unpropelledpropelled
Caused to move forward
self-propelled · motorized · powered · driven · mechanized
propel, propelled, propelling, propels, propeller, propellers, propulsion, propulsive, pulse