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Definition of Immobile
1. Adjective. Not capable of movement or of being moved.
Also: Nonmoving, Unmoving
Derivative terms: Immobilize, Immobilize
Antonyms: Mobile
2. Adjective. Securely fixed in place. "The post was still firm after being hit by the car"
Definition of Immobile
1. a. Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.
Definition of Immobile
1. Adjective. not mobile, not movable ¹
2. Adjective. fixed, unable to be moved ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immobile
1. incapable of being moved [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immobile
Literary usage of Immobile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The A B C of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1920)
"Reserves immobile Obviously a country's reserve money must to a large ...
Our American bank reserves were not only scattered, they were also immobile. ..."
2. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"This immobile condition differs from that caused by death in the fact that it is
transitory, and that the internal changes which cause it are reparable. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
".(128) Hysteria—Death in 19 Hysteria — Seborrhoea Nigri- cans 354 Hysteria and
immobile Pupils. .895 Hysterical Contracture 355 PACK. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and assisted 66 sick or wounded persons. nushi, who existed immobile at the
time of the Creation; Takami-musubi, ..."
5. Greek Imperialism by William Scott Ferguson (1913)
"... with the inevitable result that it became immobile. Such a neglect of military
matters seemed warranted by the impotence of his two great rivals. ..."
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