immobile

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

im·mo·bile BrE [ɪˈməʊbaɪl] NAmE [ɪˈmoʊbl] adjective
1. not moving
Syn: ↑motionless
•She stood immobile by the window.
2. unable to move
•His illness has left him completely immobile.
•The plaster cast is used to keep the leg immobile.
Opp: ↑mobile
Derived Word: ↑immobility

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin immobilis, from in- ‘not’ + mobilis, from movere ‘to move’.

Example Bank:
•She seemed scarcely to breathe as she lay immobile.
•The accident left him totally immobile.
•He stayed immobile, trying to remember where he was.
•Kerry sat mute and immobile.
•The cast is used to keep the leg immobile.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fast, firm