immobile

1. not comparableFixed, not movable.

   This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.

   2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

   Synonyms: immovable, fixed, sessile, fixed, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert · Antonyms: movable, mobile, ambulatory, animate, kinetic, mobile, motile, motive

plural immobiles

1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).

   […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]

   1963, Highway Research Record

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   Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.

   1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132

   One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]

   2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN

   Synonyms: inactive, nonmover