Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: immovable
IPA transcription: [,ɪm'uvəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: immovable, immoveable, stabile, unmovable
    Meaning: not able or intended to be moved; "the immovable hills"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: real_property, real_estate, realty, immovable
    Meaning: property consisting of houses and land
Usage examples
  • The Spirit was immovable as ever.
  • Ruth had given a little gasp as Mary Armstrong began, then she sat rigid and immovable.
  • But the intellect is of a more stable nature, and is more immovable than corporeal nature.
  • The tinker, with the frying-pan for a shield, renders them immovable, and blacks their cheeks.
  • The grasp tightens, so that his whole leg aches; he tries to draw in his foot, but it is held immovable.
  • He arose from the earth, and moving past the immovable form of Uncas, placed himself in a dignified attitude before the offender.
  • For what is such by participation, and what is mobile, and what is imperfect always requires the pre-existence of something essentially such, immovable and perfect.
  • His head was immovable; nor did he betray the slightest consciousness that any were present, except when his haughty eye rolled toward the dusky forms of the warriors, who stalked in the background silent and sullen observers of the scene.
  • This young man with a livid face--a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance has an indescribable fascination, sober in speech as in conduct, dressed in black, lean as a consumptive, but nevertheless vigorously framed--visited the family of his former master and the house of his cashier less from affection than from self-interest.