immobile
pronunciation
How to pronounce immobile in British English:
UK [ɪˈməʊbaɪl]
How to pronounce immobile in American English:
US [ɪˈmoʊbl]
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- Adjective:
- not capable of movement or of being moved
- securely fixed in place
Word Origin
- immobile (adj.)
- mid-14c., from Old French immoble "immovable, fixed, motionless," from Latin immobilis "immovable" (also, figuratively, "hard-hearted"), from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mobilis (see mobile (adj.)). Hence, immobilism "policy of extreme conservatism" (1949, from French immobilisme).
Example
- 1. China , in contrast , is fairly immobile : 60 % of income differences persist between generations .
- 2. But britain remains a socially immobile place : a father 's income determines that of his son more than anywhere else in the oecd , a rich-country club .
- 3. This technique requires volunteers to lie still in a large , immobile scanner . Volunteers are then asked to look at images or to perform simple tasks .
- 4. Compared to that fluid , hyperlocal data , bing and google are so static as to seem immobile .
- 5. A more realistic response among some economists is to tax what they call immobile factors of production , which cannot easily move elsewhere .