mobile

Adjective

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
   • mobile home; mobile library

   Synonyms:

   movable, afoot, animate, astir, cursory, dynamic, in motion, moving, on the move, on the wing

   Antonyms:

   fixed, immobile, immovable, sessile, stationary

2. Able to move freely or easily.
   • She's mobile again after her skiing accident.
3. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
   • mobile number
   • mobile internet
4. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
   • Mercury is a mobile liquid.

   Synonyms:

   fluxive, flowy, fluent, fluid, free-flowing, liquid, runny, thin, watery

5. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
   • the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   excitable, fickle, changeable, changeful, changeling, dynamic, everchanging, fluid, inconstant, labile

6. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
   • mobile features
   • a mobile face
7. Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

   Synonyms:

   motile

   Antonyms:

   sessile

Noun

mobile (plural mobiles)

1. (sculpture) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

   Antonyms:

   stabile

2. (Internet, uncountable) The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.
   • There are many business opportunities in mobile.
   • The bug affects mobile, but not desktop.
3. One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
   • […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a[…]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

   Antonyms:

   immobile

4. An object capable of moving under its own power.

   Antonyms:

   inanimate

5. (broadly, dated) A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).
   • MUD has a type of character called a mobile. These are monsters controlled by the program such as the Dragon and the Vampire. To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.1984, Simon Rockman, “Rockman Files: MUD, MUD, Glorious MUD”, in Games Computing, volume April 1984, page 89
   • Even mundane mobiles are very advanced. They incorporate other expert systems that enable them to fight (often better than the players); […]1991, “Modems and Mazes: Life and Death Over the Phone”, in The Gamesman, volume December 1991, page 16

   Synonyms:

   mob, mobile object, agent, non-player character

Proper noun capitalized: Mobile

US/moʊˈbiːl/UK/məʊˈbiːl/

Mobile

1. A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.
   • Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again1966, Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde