Absolutely still:
— They stood rooted in astonishment.
synonyms: frozen, stock-still.
Roget 613:
habitual;
accustomary†;
prescriptive,
accustomed
etc.
v.;
of daily occurrence,
of everyday occurrence;
consuetudinary†;
wonted,
usual,
general,
ordinary,
common,
frequent,
everyday,
household,
garden variety,
jog,
trot;
well-trodden,
well-known;
familiar,
vernacular,
trite,
commonplace,
conventional,
regular,
set,
stock,
established,
stereotyped;
prevailing,
prevalent;
current,
received,
acknowledged,
recognized,
accredited;
of course,
admitted,
understood.
conformable.
etc.
82;
according to use,
according to custom,
according to routine;
in vogue,
in fashion,
in,
with it;
fashionable
etc.
(genteel)
852.
wont;
used to,
given to,
addicted to,
attuned to,
habituated
etc.
v.;
in the habit of;
habitue;
at home in
etc.
(skillful)
698;
seasoned;
imbued with;
devoted to,
wedded to.
hackneyed,
fixed,
rooted,
deep-rooted,
ingrafted†,
permanent,
inveterate,
besetting;
naturalized;
ingrained
etc.
(intrinsic)
5.
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Roget 124:
old,
ancient,
antique;
of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable;
elder,
eldest;
firstborn.
prime;
primitive,
primeval,
primigenous†;
paleolontological,
paleontologic,
paleoanthropological,
paleoanthropic†,
paleolithic,
primordial,
primordinate†;
aboriginal
etc.
(beginning)
66;
diluvian†,
antediluvian;
protohistoric†;
prehistoric;
antebellum,
colonial,
precolumbian;
patriarchal,
preadamite†;
paleocrystic†;
fossil,
paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial†,
antemundane†;
archaic,
classic,
medieval,
Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter.
immemorial,
traditional,
prescriptive,
customary,
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;
inveterate,
rooted.
antiquated,
of other times,
rococo,
of the old school,
after-age,
obsolete;
out of date,
out of fashion,
out of it;
stale,
old-fashioned,
behind the age;
old-world;
exploded;
gone out,
gone by;
passe,
run out;
senile
etc.
128;
time worn;
crumbling
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
secondhand.
old as the hills,
old as Methuselah,
old as Adam†,
old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000],
Proterozoic
[1,500,000,000],
Paleozoic
[600,000,000],
Mesozoic
[220,000,000],
Cenozoic
[70,000,000].
[geological periods]
Precambrian,
Cambrian
[600,000,000],
Ordovician
[500,000,000],
Silurian
[440,000,000],
Devonian
[400,000,000],
Mississippian
[350,000,000],
Pennsylvanian
[300,000,000],
Permian
[270,000,000],
Triassic
[220,000,000],
Jurassic
[180,000,000],
Cretaceous
[135,000,000],
Tertiary
[70,000,000],
Paleogene
[70,000,000],
Neocene
[25,0000,000],
Quaternary
[1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)]
Paleocene,
Eocene,
Oligocene,
Miocene,
Pliocene,
Pleistocene,
Recent.
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Roget 150:
unchangeable,
immutable;
unaltered,
unalterable;
not to be changed,
constant;
permanent
etc.
141;
invariable,
undeviating;
stable,
durable;
perennial
etc.
(diuturnal)
110†.
fixed,
steadfast,
firm,
fast,
steady,
balanced;
confirmed,
valid;
fiducial†;
immovable,
irremovable,
riveted,
rooted;
settled,
established
etc.
v.;
vested;
incontrovertible,
stereotyped,
indeclinable.
tethered,
anchored,
moored,
at anchor,
on a rock,
rock solid,
firm as a rock;
firmly seated,
firmly established
etc.
v.;
deep-rooted,
ineradicable;
inveterate;
obstinate
etc.
606.
transfixed,
stuck fast,
aground,
high and dry,
stranded.
[movable object rendered unmovable]
stuck,
jammed;
unremovable;
quiescent
etc.
265;
deterioration
etc.
659.
indefeasible,
irretrievable,
intransmutable†,
incommutable†,
irresoluble†,
irrevocable,
irreversible,
reverseless†,
inextinguishable,
irreducible;
indissoluble,
indissolvable†;
indestructible,
undying,
imperishable,
incorruptible,
indelible,
indeciduous†;
insusceptible,
insusceptible of change.
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Roget 184:
placed
etc.
v.;
situate,
posited,
ensconced,
imbedded,
embosomed†,
rooted;
domesticated;
vested in,
unremoved†.
moored
etc.
v.;
at anchor.
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