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mobile

mobile

81 2.7
Able to change or move easily
  • adjective
  • /ˈmoʊbəl/
translation icon : móvil
  • The company uses mobile units to provide healthcare services in remote areas.
  • highly mobile
  • become mobile
  • more mobile

I am super happy how the first steps of the mobile workshop came out.

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Examples

  • The robots TRC develops for the service industry are mobile and capable of sensory perception.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In these vignettes, mobile literacies were felt, sensed, and improvised as bodies moved through the world.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Be the first in the valley to have your very own mobile home!

  • "Technology is on the move; it moves with us now. It is as mobile as we are."

    Academic text (2013)
  • You know, it's just practical, super mobile, easy and convenient, man.

  • The mobile unit you've called is not responding.

  • Many coastal species are highly mobile as adults, with individuals traversing entire ocean basins.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The new playground equipment is not only fun but also mobile, allowing children to play in different areas.

  • Her mobile phone allows her to stay connected no matter where she goes.

Synonyms

portable
vsmobile
157 2.9

Easy to carry or move because it is small and light

emphasizes general ability to change or travel not size or lightness
movable
vsmobile
13 2.5

Can be carried to another place

is similar but emphasizes ease of changing position or travel
moveable
vsmobile
  • UK
5 3.0

A thing that you can take to another place, like furniture

is broader allowing free movement or travel not only being unfixed
transportable
vsmobile
3 3.7

Able to be moved or carried from one place to another

is about general ability to change or travel beyond transport use
carryable
vsmobile
3.1

Easy to carry by one person

is broader, covering easy movement and general travel not only carrying
shiftable
vsmobile
4.4

A thing that can be moved to a different place

focuses more on position changes than on free movement or travel

Antonyms

46 2.9

Not moving and staying in one place

14 4.4

Not able to move or be moved, like a statue

Compounds

58 1.0

A small telephone you carry to call, text, and go online

29 2.5

A large house made in a factory that can be moved and has water and electricity

1 4.2

A bay off the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Alabama where the Mobile River flows

A temporary barrier on a road that slows vehicles and guides traffic

A river in southwest Alabama that flows into Mobile Bay

A vehicle that serves food and drinks to people at work sites or events

primum mobile
  • Archaic
9.9

A being that starts all motion and has no cause itself

How Mobile

portable
157 2.9
mobile
81 2.7
movable
13 2.5
immobile
14 4.4

Surface Forms

mobile positive
mobiler comparative
mobilest superlative

Etymology

Mobile comes from Latin mobilis 'movable', the same root as move, and it means able to change or move easily. So a 'mobile' imagination or face can quickly shift from one idea or feeling to another.