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immobile en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/ (US)
  • /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/ (UK)
  • /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/ (obsolete)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Fixed, not movable.
    • This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene. 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture:

Antonyms

kinetic · motive · mobile · movable · movable · movable · ambulatory · motile · animate · vagile · mobile

Hypernyms

stable

Hyponyms

tight

Synonyms

fixed · stationary · immobile · sessile · unmoveable · stuck · inert · inanimate · immovable · unmovable · static · immovable · rigid · lifeless · fixed · immotile · sessile

immobile en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/ (US)
  • /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/ (UK)
  • /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/ (obsolete)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.

Meanings

  1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
    • One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…] 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
    • Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers. 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
    • […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […] 1963, Highway Research Record:

Forms

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immobiles Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

immobilize · immobilization · immobilism · immobility

Synonyms

inactive · nonmover

Translations (45)

gl inmóbil (not mobile) · ca immòbil (not mobile) · be нерухо́мы (not mobile) · got 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌸𐍃 (not mobile) · ota حركتسز (not mobile) · ca immoble (not mobile) · sh не̏покре̄тан (not mobile) · hi स्थिर (not mobile) · es inmóvil (not mobile) · pt imóvel (not mobile) · ko 움직이지 않다 (not mobile) · hy անշարժ (not mobile) · sl nepremičen (not mobile) · hi अचल (not mobile) · tr hareketsiz (not mobile) · sh nȅpokrētan (not mobile) · la immōbilis (not mobile) · ja 不動の (not mobile) · eo senmova (not mobile) · bg неподви́жен (not mobile) · ru неподви́жный (not mobile) · cmn 不動 /不动 (not mobile) · el ακίνητος (not mobile) · it immobile (not mobile) · pt imóbil (not mobile) · hi ध्रुव (not mobile) · ka უძრავი (not mobile) · mk неподвижен (not mobile) · gv neuchorragh (not mobile) · sk nehybný (not mobile) · fi liikkumaton (not mobile) · ko 부동의 (not mobile) · sk imobilný (not mobile) · cs nehybný (not mobile) · bg недви́жим (not mobile) · pl nieruchomy (not mobile) · de unbeweglich (not mobile) · fr immobile (not mobile) · hi गतिहीन (not mobile) · uk нерухо́мий (not mobile) · de immobil (not mobile) · hu mozdulatlan (not mobile) · mi whakaroau (not mobile) · ja 揺るぎない (not mobile) · nl bewegingsloos (not mobile)