fixed

Attached; affixed.

Adjective

  1. Attached; affixed.
    • The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…] - 1992, Rudolf M[athias]...

    Synonyms: bound connected joined

  2. Unable to move; unmovable.

    Synonyms: immobile unmoveable unmovable fixed immotile immovable inanimate inert lifeless sessile static rigid stationary stuck

    Antonyms: mobile moveable movable ambulatory animate kinetic motile motive vagile

  3. Unable to change or vary.
    • fixed assets
    • I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
    • Every religion has its own fixed ideas.

    Synonyms: invariable bateless fixed immutable inalterable permanent perma- perpetual unabateable unalterable unchangeable undeviating

    Antonyms: variable abateable alterable changeable dynamic editable inconstant modifiable mutable

  4. Unlikely to change; stable.

    Synonyms: stable consistent equable equal even even-keeled monotonous regular samely steady uncheckered uniform unvaried unvarying

    Antonyms: volatile erratic fluid chaotic instable irregular random rocky unstable unsteady variable varying

    1. (chemistry) Chemically stable.

      Synonyms: stable consistent equable equal even even-keeled monotonous regular samely steady uncheckered uniform unvaried unvarying

      Antonyms: volatile erratic fluid chaotic instable irregular random rocky unstable unsteady variable varying

  5. Supplied with what one needs.
    • She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
    • How are you fixed for money?

    Synonyms: provided for well-served

    Antonyms: lacking wanting absent awanting bereft of deficient of deprived of destitute of devoid of leer poor in robbed of shorn of stripped of void of

  6. Recorded on a permanent medium.
    • In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
  7. Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).
    • a fixed tomcat
    • the she-cat has been fixed
  8. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
    • The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.
    • The U.S. often relied on fixed elections to keep anti-communist dictatorships in power.
  9. Resolved; corrected.
  10. Repaired.

    Synonyms: mended patched

  11. Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.

    Coordinate Terms: cardinal mutable

Forms

more fixed most fixed

Related

broken crooked bribe

Derived

basifixed centrifixed dorsifixed fixed air fixed asset fixed charge fixed cheek fixed cost fixed disc fixed disc drive fixed disk fixed disk drive fixed drive fixed expression fixed feast fixed field fixed-gear bicycle fixed head coupé fixed idea fixed income fixed limit fixedly fixedness fixed odds

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of fix