Movable

Quick meaning: Movable is an adjective meaning Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.

Meaning

Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.

More Meanings

1. Changing from one time to another.
2. Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.

Example Sentences

This feast is movable - its date varies from year to year.

The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.

Word Forms

• moveable
• movables

Synonyms for movable

Depending on context, synonyms include ambulatory, kinetic, mobile, motile, motive, vagile.

Antonyms for movable

Common opposites include immobile, immovable, fixed, immotile, inanimate, inert.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mobile, portable, transportable, moveable, transferrable, transferable.

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