IMMOVABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immovable mean? 

• IMMOVABLE (noun)
  The noun IMMOVABLE has 1 sense:

1. property consisting of houses and land

  Familiarity information: IMMOVABLE used as a noun is very rare.

• IMMOVABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMMOVABLE has 1 sense:

1. not able or intended to be moved

  Familiarity information: IMMOVABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMOVABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Property consisting of houses and land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

immovable; real estate; real property; realty

Hypernyms ("immovable" is a kind of...):

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immovable"):

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate (extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use)

land (the land on which real estate is located)

dead hand; mortmain (real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation))

• IMMOVABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not able or intended to be moved

Synonyms:

immovable; immoveable; stabile; unmovable

Context example:

the immovable hills

Similar:

immobile (not capable of movement or of being moved)

Derivation:

immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

 Context examples 

Darkness impenetrable and immovable filled the room.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She sat upright in her arm-chair, with a stately, immovable, passionless air, that it seemed as if nothing could disturb.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An exercise that is performed by exerting force against an immovable object or by holding an object in a static position.

(Isometric Exercise, NCI Thesaurus)

No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;—but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immovable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Yes!” replied the immovable Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elinor, while she waited in silence and immovable gravity, the conclusion of such folly, could not restrain her eyes from being fixed on him with a look that spoke all the contempt it excited.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The door was still immovable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She went on: From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She sat immovable beside me; but, again I saw the stray tears on her face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)