Immobile

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immobile \Im*mo"bile\, a. [L. immobilis: cf. F. immobile. See
     {Immobility}.]
     Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. --Prof.
     Shedd.
     [1913 Webster] immobilisation



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immobile
       adj 1: not capable of movement or of being moved [ant: {mobile}]
       2: securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after
          being hit by the car" [syn: {fast}, {firm}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "immobile":
     abiding, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, at anchor,
     changeless, constant, contemplative, continuing, dead-still,
     do-nothing, dormant, durable, enduring, firm, fixed, frozen, idle,
     immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, inactive, inert,
     inflexible, intact, inviolate, irremovable, laissez-aller,
     laissez-faire, lasting, meditative, motionless, moveless, neuter,
     neutral, out of commission, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pat,
     permanent, perpetual, persistent, procrastinating, quiescent,
     quietist, quietistic, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, solid,
     stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary,
     statuelike, staying, steadfast, still, stock-still, sustained,
     torpid, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked,
     undestroyed, unemployed, unfading, unfailing, unmovable, unmoved,
     unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vegetable,
     vegetative