What does immovable mean?

Definitions for immovable
ɪˈmu və bəlim·mov·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. real property, real estate, realty, immovableadjective

    property consisting of houses and land

  2. immovable, immoveable, stabile, unmovableadjective

    not able or intended to be moved

    "the immovable hills"

Wiktionary

  1. immovablenoun

    That which can not be moved; something which is immovable.

  2. immovableadjective

    Incapable of being physically moved; fixed.

  3. immovableadjective

    Steadfast in purpose or intention; unalterable, unyielding.

  4. immovableadjective

    Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling; impassive.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Immovableadjective

    Etymology: in and moveable.

    We shall not question his removing the earth, when he finds an immovable base to place his engine upon. Brown.

    When an executor meddles with the immovable estate, before he has seized on the moveable goods, it may be then appealed from the execution of sentence. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

    How much happier is he, who, centring on himself, remains immovable, and smiles at the madness of the dance about him! John Dryden, Don Sebastian.

ChatGPT

  1. immovable

    Immovable refers to something that cannot be moved, altered, or influenced easily. It is characterized by steadfastness, stability, or permanence and can relate to physical objects, aspects of geographical property, or personal characteristics like beliefs, determination, or emotions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Immovableadjective

    incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin

  2. Immovableadjective

    steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable

  3. Immovableadjective

    not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive

  4. Immovableadjective

    not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n

  5. Immovablenoun

    that which can not be moved

  6. Immovablenoun

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Immovable

    im-mōōv′a-bl, adj. steadfast: unalterable: that cannot be impressed or made to fall: (pl.) fixtures, &c., not movable by a tenant.—ns. Immov′ableness, Immovabil′ity.—adv. Immov′ably.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of immovable in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of immovable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of immovable in a Sentence

  1. Former President Trump:

    Oz worked very hard, but there were forces against him, oz is a great guy. He had a lot of immovable forces against him.

  2. Benjamin Franklin:

    All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move.

  3. Maria Montessori:

    Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

  4. Charles Baudelaire:

    Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  5. Ritch Workman:

    This is the first time that I’ve seen an immovable object on top of the budget, and no negotiation can take place until somehow we move that object.

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