Immovable

Word IMMOVABLE
Character 9
Hyphenation im mov a ble
Pronunciations /ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)l/

Definitions and meanings of "Immovable"

What do we mean by immovable?

Impossible to move. adjective

Incapable of movement. adjective

Impossible to alter. adjective

Unyielding in principle, purpose, or adherence; steadfast. adjective

Incapable of being moved emotionally. adjective

Of or relating to things, such as trees and buildings, attached to real property. adjective

One that cannot move or be moved. noun

Things that are attached to real property. noun

Incapable of being moved or displaced; too heavy or firm to be moved; firmly fixed; fast.

Not to be moved from a purpose; steadfast; fixed; that cannot be induced to change or alter: as, a man who remains immovable.

Incapable of being altered or shaken; unalterable; unchangeable: as, an immovable purpose or resolution.

That cannot be affected; not impressible; impassive; unfeeling.

In law, not liable to be removed; permanent in place; real, as distinguished from personal.

That which cannot be moved; specifically, in law, land, or any appurtenance fixed to or running with the land. noun

Also immoveable. noun

That which can not be moved. noun

Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes. noun

Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things. adjective

Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will. adjective

That which can not be moved; something which is immovable

Synonyms and Antonyms for Immovable

The word "immovable" in example sentences

I must have sat in immovable traffic for an hour thinking to myself that there is no way this city is going to successfully pull off an Olympic Games, until I finally gave up and headed home. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And it turneth no more to this or to that, but it willeth always One, and that is God; to Him it cleaveth alway, without any going back; and therefore is it called immovable, for it suffereth not itself to be moved from God. ❋ C. 1300-1361 (1910)

But if the earth also moves, the true and absolute motion of the body will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space; partly from the relative motion of the ship on the earth; and if the body moves also relatively in the ship; its true motion will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space, and partly from the relative motions as well of the ship on the earth, as of the body in the ship; and from these relative motions will arise the relative motion of the body on the earth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But for those with the FOX News logo permanently burned into the lower right hand side of their TV screen -- aka the immovable 35 percent -- none of this information meant a thing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Immovable if we choose to make them immovable, that is. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

And we must acknowledge that as there are two kinds of knowledge, so there are two kinds of being corresponding to them; the one uncreated, indestructible, immovable, which is seen by intelligence only; the other created, which is always becoming in place and vanishing out of place, and is apprehended by opinion and sense. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He speaks of a “nondiscriminatory knowledge” realized in action as “immovable wisdom”: “It [immovable wisdom] moves as the mind is wont to move: forward or back, to the left, to the right, in the ten directions and to the eight points; and the mind that does not stop at all is called immovable wisdom.” ❋ Nagatomo, Shigenori (2006)

I spoke to him, and perhaps used many gestures which seemed superfluous to a large man whom I should describe as immovable, and who spoke slowly, with no motion of the hand, as if his utterances were the condensed wisdom of the ages. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)

'Being there is none, movable or immovable, which is without me' (X, 39). ❋ George Thibaut (1881)

So whether we approve of "immovable" or sneer at it depends on our own values and perspectives, not on an a priori notion that ❋ Unknown (2008)

During their long run at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly, the RSC divided theatre-goers - some praising their mix of high and low comedy, others seeing them as just a bit too silly - and this ambivalence was summed up when they were described as 'immovable' in a "state of the West End" think-piece a few years back. ❋ Annawaits (2007)

This last is the only kind of immovable thing of which I use the term ‘being at rest’: for rest is contrary to motion, so that rest will be negation of motion in that which is capable of admitting motion. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

American news reports described Asad at the Geneva summit as "immovable," as "the most implacable person in his delegation," and as "obstinate in his long-held view that there must be a full Israeli withdrawal to the frontier that existed on June 4, 1967." ❋ Al-Azm, Sadik J. (2000)

When Alexander the Great was on his Indian expedition, he was presented by the King of Albania with a dog of unusual size; being greatly delighted with its noble appearance, he ordered bears, and after them wild boars, and then deer, to be let loose before it; but the dog lay down and regarded them with a kind of immovable contempt. ❋ Various (1887)

Whatever, therefore, manifests itself in the field of sense is merely illusory -- the mental representation of a phenomenal world, which to experience seems diversified, but which reason can not possibly admit to be other than "immovable" and "one." ❋ Unknown (1852)

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