UNFIXED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfixed mean? 

• UNFIXED (adjective)
  The adjective UNFIXED has 2 senses:

1. not firmly placed or set or fastened

2. lacking definition or definite content

  Familiarity information: UNFIXED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFIXED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not firmly placed or set or fastened

Similar:

detached; free (not fixed in position)

floating ((of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position)

unfirm; unsteady (not firmly or solidly positioned)

Also:

insecure (not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way)

Antonym:

fixed (securely placed or fastened or set)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking definition or definite content

Synonyms:

nebulous; unfixed

Context example:

unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be

Similar:

indefinite (vague or not clearly defined or stated)

 Context examples 

The general listened with assenting gratitude; and it seemed as if his own estimation of Northanger had waited unfixed till that hour.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Not all his good-will for Mr. Rushworth, not all Mr. Rushworth's deference for him, could prevent him from soon discerning some part of the truth—that Mr. Rushworth was an inferior young man, as ignorant in business as in books, with opinions in general unfixed, and without seeming much aware of it himself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Catherine, whose expectations had been as unfixed as her ideas of her father's income, and whose judgment was now entirely led by her brother, felt equally well satisfied, and heartily congratulated Isabella on having everything so pleasantly settled.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging for herself, and unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt, while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit, of his being altogether completely agreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)