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immobile
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective immobile has 2 senses
- immobile(a = adj.all) Array - not capable of movement or of being moved; Array Derived forms verb immobilize6, verb immobilize2
- immobile(s = adj.all) fast, firm - securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" Derived form noun immobility1
Antonym: mobile
CIDE DICTIONARY
immobile, a. [L. immobilis: cf. F. immobile. See Immobility.].
Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. Prof. Shedd. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
immobile, adj.
1 not moving.
2 not able to move or be moved.
1 not moving.
2 not able to move or be moved.
Derivative
immobility n.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L immobilis (as IN-(1), MOBILE)
THESAURUS
immobile
abiding, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, at anchor, changeless, constant, contemplative, continuing, dead-still, do-nothing, dormant, durable, enduring, firm, fixed, frozen, idle, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, inactive, inert, inflexible, intact, inviolate, irremovable, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lasting, meditative, motionless, moveless, neuter, neutral, out of commission, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pat, permanent, perpetual, persistent, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, solid, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, statuelike, staying, steadfast, still, stock-still, sustained, torpid, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unemployed, unfading, unfailing, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vegetable, vegetative
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