immobile

See also: Immobile

English

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- +‎ mobile.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

immobile (not comparable)

1. Fixed, not movable.

   Synonyms: immovable, fixed, sessile; see also Thesaurus:immobile

   Antonyms: movable, mobile; see also Thesaurus:movable

   • 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture‎^[2]:

     This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.

Noun

immobile (plural immobiles)

1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).

   Synonyms: inactive, nonmover

   • 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 […]

Derived terms

• immobility
• immobilization
• immobilize

 

Translations

not mobile

• Armenian: անշարժ (hy) (anšarž)
• Belarusian: нерухо́мы (njeruxómy)
• Bulgarian: недви́жим (bg) (nedvížim), неподви́жен (bg) (nepodvížen)
• Catalan: immoble (ca), immòbil (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不動 / 不动 (zh) (bùdòng)

• Czech: nehybný
• Dutch: bewegingsloos (nl)
• Esperanto: senmova
• French: immobile (fr)
• Galician: inmóbil (gl)
• Georgian: უძრავი (uʒravi)
• German: unbeweglich (de), immobil (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌸𐍃 (ungawagiþs)
• Greek: ακίνητος (el) (akínitos)
• Hindi: स्थिर (hi) (sthir), ध्रुव (hi) (dhruv)
• Hungarian: mozdulatlan (hu)
• Italian: immobile (it)
• Japanese: 揺るぎない (ja) (ゆるぎない, yuruginai), 不動の (ja) (ふどうの, fudō no)
• Korean: 부동의 (ko) (budong'ui), 움직이지 않다 (umjigiji anta)
• Latin: immōbilis (la)
• Macedonian: неподвижен (nepodvižen)
• Manx: neuchorragh
• Maori: whakaroau
• Polish: nieruchomy (pl)
• Portuguese: imóvel (pt), imóbil
• Russian: неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: не̏покре̄тан

  Roman: nȅpokrētan (sh)

• Slovak: nehybný, imobilný
• Slovene: nepremičen
• Spanish: inmóvil (es)
• Ukrainian: нерухо́мий (neruxómyj)

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɔ.bil/

• Audio:

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Adjective

immobile (plural immobiles)

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

Related terms

• immobilier
• immobilisation
• immobiliser
• immobilité

 

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈmɔ.bi.le/

• Audio:

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

Adjective

immobile (plural immobili)

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

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

• immobilmente

Noun

immobile m (plural immobili)

1. real estate, immovable property, building, immovables

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

Related terms

• bene immobile
• immobiliare
• immobilismo
• immobilità
• immobilizzare

 

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

immōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of immōbilis

References

• 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)