immotile

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adjective

Not motile (lacking the ability to move)

Similar
staticunmovablefixedimmobileimmovableinanimateinertlifeless
OriginEnglish motile ← Latin mōtus ← Proto-Italic *moweō →
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Meanings

adjectiveimmotile (comparative more immotile, superlative most immotile)

comparative more immotile · superlative most immotile

  1. Not motile (lacking the ability to move)

    And they currently have forty-two ships searching for an immotile civilization beyond the region of space we Firewalled.

    2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void

    Synonyms: static, unmovable, fixed, immobile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot motile (lacking the ability to move)

Similar
staticunmovablefixedimmobileimmovableinanimateinertlifelesssessilestaticrigidstationarystuckunmovableunmoveable

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement

Similar
nonmotileimmobile
Also see
fixedimmobileimmovableinanimatelifelessnonmotilerigidsessilestaticstationarystucktranquilunmovableunmoveable

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Latinim-
  6. Englishim-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  9. Proto-Italic*moweō
  10. Latinmoveō
  11. Latinmōtus
  12. Englishmotile
  13. Englishimmotile

From im- + motile.

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APA

immotile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immotile

MLA

“immotile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immotile. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “immotile,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immotile.

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