as in static
incapable of moving or being moved
the tree was unmovable, so we designed the garden pond around it
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Recent Examples of unmovable
Though onscreen the plot necessitated that these women wind up married (and presumably with a mortgage), the fantasy of the single girl in her apartment has proved unmovable.
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Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The Penguins view a very small list of players as being unmovable.
—Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Late great center Dikembe Mutombo, who sadly died at just 58 following a battle with brain cancer on Sept. 30 last year, was one of the most unmovable post forces the league has ever seen.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
That the incumbent commissioner can’t turn the ship around despite what seem like positive intentions is not a mark in favor of keeping her pushing against a seemingly unmovable object.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The Penguins view a very small list of players as being unmovable.
—Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Late great center Dikembe Mutombo, who sadly died at just 58 following a battle with brain cancer on Sept. 30 last year, was one of the most unmovable post forces the league has ever seen.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
That the incumbent commissioner can’t turn the ship around despite what seem like positive intentions is not a mark in favor of keeping her pushing against a seemingly unmovable object.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmovable
Adjective
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Merging dining and design offers more product interaction than the static and leisurely pace of traditional furniture retail.—
John Wogan,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2025
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Zhang further explained that traditional anti-jamming techniques rely on static assumptions and often fail in rapidly changing conditions, causing serious performance losses.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Male silverbacks were virtually immovable, acting as the displacing animal in more than 99% of interactions.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
28 Aug. 2025
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The not-in-my-backyard, or NIMBY, mindset was thought to be an immovable obstacle—support in theory, opposition in practice.—
Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Not at all motionless essence, but endless motion.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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The video, which bears a watermark suggesting it was livestreamed on the video platform Kick, showed Jackson straddling Smith before repeatedly punching him in the face and the side of his head, even when Smith was lying motionless.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In this model, our planet was covered for its first 2 to 3 billion years by a rigid, immobile outer shell with convection processes occurring beneath it in Earth’s mantle.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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In general, sea anemones are known to keep their tube-like bodies relatively vertical and are considered immobile, researchers said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Prosecutors said police later identified Korosa from a community bulletin containing a still image from the CTA surveillance video.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Still, the richest, most enduring pleasures here are formal ones, beginning with the exacting still-life compositions and oily, vehement primary hues of Jenkins’ 16mm lensing, which can make a painterly subject of a maritime squall or a mustard-yellow wading boot.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in his dissent in Myers v. United States in 1925 would have required even postmasters to be confirmable and even irremovable by the president.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Dec. 2024
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Impeachment is an irremovable stain on any presidency, and Trump knows it.—
Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
18 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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If an alpha wolfs out under a full moon, they get stuck in that form forever and are doomed to be hunted and killed by their fellow werewolves.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The contraction has been particularly brutal for Hollywood’s production assistants, many of whom are feeling stuck at what is supposed to be the starting line of their careers.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Unmovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmovable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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