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immobile

UK/ɪˈməʊ.baɪl//ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/

immobile adjective: fixed, not movable.

Adjective

immobile (not comparable)

  1. 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

Noun

immobile (plural immobiles)

  1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
    • […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]1963, Highway Research Record
    • 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...1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132
    Synonyms:
    inactive, nonmover

immobile meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

immobile in Hindi

not mobile
स्थिर sthir, ध्रुव dhruv, गतिहीन gatihīn, अचल acal

immobile in Tamil

நிலையான, நகர முடியாத

immobile in Urdu

پا بہ گل

immobile in Bengali

স্থবির, নিশ্চল, গতিহীন
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immobile in Malayalam
ചലനമറ്റ, ഇളക്കമില്ലാത്ത, അനക്കമില്ലാത്ത, നിശ്ചല
immobile in Kannada
ಮಿಡುಕದ, ಕಂದದ, ಗಟ್ಟಿ, ಸ್ಥಿರ

Synonyms of immobile

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Antonyms

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Forms of immobile

pluralimmobiles

Origin of immobile

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

Words formed from immobile

Questions about immobile

What does immobile mean?
Immobile means fixed, not movable.
What is immobile in Hindi?
Immobile in Hindi is स्थिर (sthir), ध्रुव (dhruv), गतिहीन (gatihīn). See Immobile meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is immobile?
Immobile can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce immobile?
Immobile is pronounced /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/ (UK).

Words near immobile in the dictionary

  1. immixes
  2. immixing
  3. immixt
  4. immixture
  5. immixtures
  6. immobile
  7. immobilely
  8. immobilin
  9. immobilisate
  10. immobilisates
  11. immobilisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: immobile (page history and authors); immobile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immobile (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Immobile (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immobile (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); immobile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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