Antonyms of noun mobile

1 of 3 senses of mobile

Sense 3
mobile -- (sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents)
       Antonym of stabile (Sense 1)
      => stabile -- (a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mobile

3 senses of mobile

Sense 1
Mobile, Mobile River -- (a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")

Sense 2
Mobile -- (a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay)
       INSTANCE OF=> city, metropolis, urban center -- (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city")
       INSTANCE OF=> port -- (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Sense 3
mobile -- (sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents)
       => sculpture -- (a three-dimensional work of plastic art)

Antonyms of adj mobile

5 senses of mobile

Sense 1
mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering -- (migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes")

INDIRECT (VIA unsettled) -> settled -- (established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization")

Sense 2
mobile (vs. immobile) -- (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator")

immobile (vs. mobile) -- (not capable of movement or of being moved)
        => immovable, immoveable, stabile, unmovable -- (not able or intended to be moved; "the immovable hills")
        => nonmotile, immotile -- ((of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement)
        => stiff -- (not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge")

Sense 3
mobile -- (having transportation available)

INDIRECT (VIA moving) -> nonmoving, unmoving -- (not in motion)

Sense 4
mobile -- (capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face")

INDIRECT (VIA changeable) -> unchangeable -- (not changeable or subject to change; "a fixed and unchangeable part of the germ plasm"-Ashley Montagu; "the unchangeable seasons"; "one of the unchangeable facts of life")

Sense 5
fluid, mobile -- (affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile")

INDIRECT (VIA changeable) -> unchangeable -- (not changeable or subject to change; "a fixed and unchangeable part of the germ plasm"-Ashley Montagu; "the unchangeable seasons"; "one of the unchangeable facts of life")

Similarity of adj mobile

5 senses of mobile

Sense 1
mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering -- (migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes")
       => unsettled (vs. settled) -- (not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle")

Sense 2
mobile (vs. immobile) -- (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator")
       => airborne -- (moved or conveyed by or through air)
       => ambulant, ambulatory -- (able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory")
       => floating -- (inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game")
       => maneuverable, manoeuvrable -- (capable of maneuvering or changing position; "a highly maneuverable ship")
       => mechanized, mechanised, motorized -- (using vehicles; "motorized warfare")
       => motile -- ((of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement)
       => movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable -- (capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another)
       => perambulating -- (strolling or walking around; "perambulating nursemaids with their charges")
       => racy -- (designed or suitable for competing in a race)
       => raisable, raiseable -- (capable of being raised; "the roadster had a raisable sunroof")
       => rangy -- (adapted to wandering or roaming)
       => rotatable -- (capable of being rotated; "the theater had a rotatable stage")
       => seaborne -- (conveyed by sea)
       => transplantable -- (capable of being transplanted)
       => versatile -- (able to move freely in all directions; "an owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward"; "an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally"; "a versatile anther of a flower moves freely in the wind")
       => waterborne -- (transported by water; "waterborne freight")
          Also See-> moving#1

Sense 3
mobile -- (having transportation available)
       => moving (vs. nonmoving) -- (in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts of the machine")

Sense 4
mobile -- (capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face")
       => changeable (vs. unchangeable), changeful -- (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices")

Sense 5
fluid, mobile -- (affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile")
       => changeable (vs. unchangeable), changeful -- (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices")

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