Immobile Meaning
/ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjFixed, not movable.
nounOne who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
Sentence Examples
The car stopped completely immobile.
This supposition, that the Earth is immobile, was completely untrue.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After the accident, the patient lay ____ in the hospital bed, unable to move any part of his body.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The large dog sat completely ____, staring intently at the small squirrel in the tall tree.
Word Origin & History
From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture:
"[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]"
— 1963, Highway Research Record:
"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."
— 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
"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[…]"
— 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the accident, the patient lay ____ in the hospital bed, unable to move any part of his body.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The large dog sat completely ____, staring intently at the small squirrel in the tall tree.