immovable

Incapable of being physically moved: fixed.

Adjective

  1. Incapable of being physically moved: fixed.

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

    Antonyms: movable ambulatory animate kinetic mobile motile motive vagile

  2. Steadfast in purpose or intention: unalterable, unyielding.
    • I pleaded with him not to resign, but he was immovable. - 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 101:

    Synonyms: adamant staunch ardent grim bent on bloody-minded bullheaded certain chronic confirmed determined diehard dogged hard-hearted hard-nosed hardheaded headstrong immovable incalcitrant inflexible irrefragable insistent intractable intransigent

  3. Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling: impassive.
    • How much happier is he […]who ent'ring on himself remains immovable, and smiles at the madness of the Dance - 1690, [John] Dryden, “To the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Leycester, &c.”, in Don Sebastian, King of...

    Synonyms: dead inside unmovable alexithymic apathistical clinical dull phlegmatic cold-blooded cold-hearted dispassionate emotionless immovable impassible impassive insensible nonemotional nonfeeling nonpassionate nonsentimental stolid unemotional unfeeling unpassionate unsentimental

  4. Not liable to be removed: permanent in place or tenure, fixed.
    • an immovable estate

Origin

Etymology tree Middle English immevable English immovable From Middle English immevable, immoveable. Equivalent to im- + movable.

Forms

more immovable most immovable immoveable

Related

immobility unmovability unmovable unmoveability unmoveable

Derived

immovableness immovable property immovably

Noun

  1. Something immovable.
    1. (law, in the plural) Immovable objects or property, as land, buildings, etc.

Forms

immovables immoveable