Immobile meaning

ĭ-mō'bəl, -bēl', -bīl'
Immovable; fixed.

An immobile rock formation.

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Not moving; motionless.

The patient in the coma was immobile.

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Not very mobile or agile; capable of moving only slowly.

An immobile quarterback.

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Not movable; firmly set or placed; stable.
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Not moving or changing; motionless.
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Not mobile, not movable.
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Fixed, unable to be moved.
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The definition of immobile is something that is not moving or that is incapable of being moved.

A person who is bedridden is an example of someone who is immobile.

A huge piece of furniture that is too heavy to move is an example of something that is immobile.

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Origin of immobile

  • From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis.
    From Wiktionary

Immobile Sentence Examples

  • Kutuzov's face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly immobile for a few moments.

  • Although the third order of lever is particularly inefficient when the fulcrum is rigid and immobile, it possesses singular advantages when these conditions are reversed, that is, when the fulcrum, as happens with the air, is elastic and yielding.

  • Imagine for a moment that the sand grains were by any means rendered immobile without change in the permeability of their interspaces; we could then dispense with the iron or brickwork lining of the well; but as there would still be no cracks or fissures to extend the area of percolating water exposed to the open well, the yield would be very small.

  • He grew up among enemies, and became artful, suspicious and self-controlled, concealing his feeling behind the mask of an immobile, almost repulsive, coldness.

  • The stage is known as "paradoxical sleep" because of the combination of immobile muscles and heightened brain activity.

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