Meaning of mobile in English

Classifying Adjective
mobile
Definitions
1. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently
Examples
- « a restless mobile society »
- « the nomadic habits of the Bedouins »
- « believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future »
- « wandering tribes »
Synonyms
- unsettled
2. having transportation available
Synonyms
- moving
3. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
Examples
- « a highly mobile face »
Synonyms
- changeable
- changeful
4. affording change (especially in social status)
Examples
- « Britain is not a truly fluid society »
- « upwardly mobile »
Synonyms
- changeable
- changeful
Noun
Mobile
Definitions
1. a river in southwestern Alabama
Examples
- « flows into Mobile Bay »
2. a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
3. sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
Antonyms
- stabile
Qualitative Adjective
mobile
Etymology
late 15th century: via French from Latin mobilis, from movere‘to move’. The noun dates from the 1940s
Definitions
1. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
Examples
- « a mobile missile system »
- « the tongue is...the most mobile articulator »
Synonyms
Antonyms
- immobile

Pronunciation