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語源

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- +‎ mobile.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
• IPA: (obsolete) /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/

形容詞

immobile (not comparable)

1. Fixed, not movable.

   Synonyms: immovable, fixed, sessile; see also Thesaurus:immobile

   Antonyms: movable, mobile; see also Thesaurus:movable

   • 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture‎:

     This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.

名詞

immobile (plural immobiles)

1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).

   Synonyms: inactive, nonmover

   • 1963, Highway Research Record:

     […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles"  […]

   • 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

     Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.

   • 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:

     One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used […]

派生語

参照

形容詞

immōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of immōbilis

参照

• "immobile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)