immobile

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/[1]

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immobile (not comparable)

1. fixed, not movable

   Synonyms: immovable, fixed, sessile, stationary

   Antonyms: movable, mobile

immobile (plural immobiles)

1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
   • 1963, Highway Research Record:

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

   • 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

     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.

   • 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:

     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-standing iron range was used […]

• fixed
• sessile (botany)
• unmovable

• mobile

Inherited from Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis. Morphologically analyzable as im- +‎ mobile. Doublet of immeuble.

• IPA^(key): /i.mɔ.bil/

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immobile (plural immobiles)

1. motionless, unmoving, still, stationary
2. immovable, immobile
3. invariable

• “immobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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immobile

1. inflection of immobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Borrowed from Latin immōbilis (“immobile, immovable”).

• IPA^(key): /imˈmɔ.bi.le/

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• Rhymes: -ɔbile
• Hyphenation: im‧mò‧bi‧le

immobile (plural immobili)

1. still, motionless, stationary
2. immovable, immobile

• mobile

• immobilmente

immobile m (plural immobili)

1. real estate, immovable property, building, immovables

   Synonyms: bene immobile, proprietà, (building) edificio, casa, caseggiato, costruzione, palazzo, fabbricato

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /imˈmoː.bi.le/, [ɪmˈmoːbɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈmo.bi.le/, [imˈmɔːbile]

immōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of immōbilis

• immobile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)