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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɪkst/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪkst

Verb

fixed

simple past and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

Attached; affixed.
Synonyms: bound, connected, joined
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
  The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […]
Not able to move; unmovable.
Synonyms: immobile, unmoveable, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile

Antonyms: mobile, moveable, movable; see also Thesaurus:movable
Not able to change or vary.
Synonyms: invariable; see also Thesaurus:immutable

Antonyms: variable; see also Thesaurus:mutable

fixed assets

I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.

Every religion has its own fixed ideas.

He looked at me with a fixed glare.
Unlikely to change; Stable.
Synonyms: stable; see also Thesaurus:steady

Antonyms: volatile; see also Thesaurus:unsteady
2. (chemistry) Chemically stable.
Supplied with what one needs.
Synonyms: provided for, well-served

Antonyms: lacking, wanting; see also Thesaurus:lacking

She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
(law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
Repaired
Synonyms: mended, patched
(astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
Coordinate terms: cardinal, mutable

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective fixed

Translations

not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same

Asturian: fixu
Bulgarian: постоянен (bg) (postojanen), неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
Catalan: fix (ca)
Finnish: kiinteä (fi)
French: fixé (fr)
German: fixiert (de), fix (de)
Greek: τακτός (el) (taktós)
Ancient: πηκτός (pēktós)
Hindi: स्थिर (hi) (sthir), निश्चित (niścit)
Irish: diongbháilte
Italian: fisso (it)
Japanese: 固定された (ja) (kotei sareta), 安定的な (anteiteki na)
Latin: status (la)
Malayalam: നിശ്ചിത (ml) (niścita), സ്ഥിര (ml) (sthira)
Maori: māhoi
Occitan: fix (oc), fixe (oc), fixat
Persian: ثابت (fa) (sâbet), فیکس (fa) (fiks)
Portuguese: fixado (pt), fixo (pt)
Russian: фикси́рованный (ru) (fiksírovannyj), устано́вленный (ru) (ustanóvlennyj)
Spanish: fijo (es)
Turkish: sabit (tr), değişmez (tr)
Uyghur: مۇقىم (muqim)

stationary — see stationary

surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed

French: castré (fr), châtré (fr)
German: kastriert (de), sterilisiert (de) (female animals), verschnitten (de)
Italian: castrato (it) m
Occitan: castrat, crestat

repaired

Latin: refectus

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Norman: ^{(please verify)} fixe (Jersey)

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