immobile
part of speech
adjective (immobile)
meaning for a pupil
1) Not moving at all; perfectly still. tree →
2) Not able to move or be moved, for example because of an injury, illness or because something is fixed in place. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, some living things are immobile, like plants and barnacles, which stay in one place. In stories a frightened character stands immobile, frozen with fear. In health, a person with a broken leg may be immobile for weeks. Phrases: stand immobile, lie immobile, completely immobile.
examples
- The cat sat immobile, watching the mouse hole. tree →
- After the accident he was immobile for a month. tree →
- Plants are immobile, so they can't run from danger. tree →
- The statue-like guard stood immobile at the palace gate. tree →
- The heavy wardrobe was immobile; we couldn't shift it. tree →
- In musical statues you must stay immobile when the music stops. tree →
- The eagle-eyed man lifted a face, thin and sharp as though it had been carven on the wind, and he stared forward with an immobile intentness. tree →
note
Opposite: «mobile» (able to move). Nouns: «immobility». Verb: «immobilise» (to stop something moving). Pronounced ih-MOH-bile (UK) or ih-MOH-bul (US).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «immobile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.