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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • immobility, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of immobile1

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

A bumblebee nest full of honey and nearly immobile larvae, though, is highly attractive to predators.

As immobile as Smith appeared to be in the victory that clinched the NFC East title — he was about as nimble as a grand piano without wheels — for three years, he has represented Washington’s best chance to win.

Roethlisberger has grown completely stationary as the sport moves away from immobile quarterbacks.

He looked immobile Sunday, and the Eagles countered by blitzing more.

Apparently, Henri had a deteriorating spinal condition and had been rendered largely immobile as a result.

In each frame, Ai faces the camera, impassive and nearly immobile.

The exhibit points out, for instance, that immobile plants face over 500,000 types of insects who want to feed on them.

Like some estivating desert creature, it spends the summer huddling immobile under the shelter of our counters.

Aislin, narrowed hazel eyes and immobile pink lips, flipped on the light of the stairway and stared at me.

And then Weedham dropped beside the dead man, looked long and searchingly into the immobile face.

Thereafter she had had no occasion to interview the strange, immobile Egyptian, nor had she experienced any desire to do so.

Nor, my heavy and immobile appearance notwithstanding, was I (I affirm this) a solitary because I was refused acquaintanceship.

Their countenances were so immobile that he gained no information from the looks there; but both the officers did.

Wild and unfeeling as he seemed, there must be a sense of justice in him, reading him by his stern, immobile face.

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