Immobile

Quick meaning: Immobile is an adjective meaning Fixed, not movable.

Meaning

Fixed, not movable.

More Meanings

1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).

Example Sentences

[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]

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.

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[…]

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.

Word Forms

• immobiles

Synonyms for immobile

Depending on context, synonyms include fixed, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless.

Antonyms for immobile

Common opposites include movable, mobile, ambulatory, kinetic, motile, motive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include immotile, immovable, unmovable, immoveable, fixed, stiff.

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