immobile

UK /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/ US /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/

adj 1noun 1

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

lie, remain, sit, stand

The injured player remained immobile on the ground until the medical team arrived.

become

hold sb, leave sb

Fear held the child immobile as the dog approached slowly.

ADV

completely, perfectly, totally, utterly | almost, virtually | relatively

Definitions

adj

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.

noun

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" […]

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — securely fixed in place

Antonyms

mobile

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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-stan

Wiktionary

The car stopped completely immobile.

Tatoeba · #674475

This supposition, that the Earth is immobile, was completely untrue.

Tatoeba · #1809074

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