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IMMOVABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Property consisting of houses and land
Synonyms:
immovable; real estate; real property; realty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
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))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not able or intended to be moved
Example:
the immovable hills
Synonyms:
immovable; immoveable; stabile; unmovable
Classified under:
Similar:
immobile (not capable of movement or of being moved)
Derivation:
immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)
Context examples:
The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, and one of his eyes immovable in his head) is fraught with interest to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was conscious of this, and put a constraint upon his head; but his keeping that immovable, and sitting rolling his eyes like a piece of machinery, did not mend the matter at all.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My aunt, very pale, and with deep lines in her face, sat immovable until I had finished; when some stray tears found their way to her cheeks, and she put her hand on mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Jorkins is immovable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But appearing to remark that Mr. Wickfield went on with his dinner in the same sedate, immovable manner, and that there was no hope of making him relax a muscle of his face, he added: However, I have said what I came to say, and, with another apology for this intrusion, I may take myself off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as Hear! or No! or Oh! when the text seemed to require it: which was always a signal to Mr. Dick (a perfect country gentleman) to follow lustily with the same cry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
