immobile

[ih-moh-buhl, -beel]

adjective

1. incapable of moving or being moved.

2. not mobile or moving; motionless.

immobile

/ ɪˈməʊbaɪl, ˌɪməʊˈbɪlɪtɪ /

adjective

1. not moving; motionless

2. not able to move or be moved; fixed

Other Word Forms

• immobility noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of immobile¹

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Latin word immōbilis. See im- ², mobile

Example Sentences

Held on to a couple of key catches at slip, but also looked immobile in the cordon.

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Predictably too, the greatest burden of taxes fell on the most immobile, who lost their employment, not on the corporations that formally bore the burden of the tax.

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Mr. Bird emphasizes that land is easy to borrow against because “it is both immobile and extremely durable.”

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A mosquito spots the eminent man and zooms over to wheedle in his ear, but Bashō remains immobile.

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Patients have told File on 4 Investigates how they were left immobile or addicted to painkillers after receiving the NexGen knee implant, because it ended up slipping out of place.

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Related Words

• immovable 
• stagnant 
• static 
• stationary