immovable
Other forms: immovables
Immovable things can't be budged. While you can move a bicycle or a grocery cart or a balloon, a cement park bench is immovable.
Many things are immovable because they're made to be that way: a car is designed to be immovable when it's shifted into "park," or when the emergency brake is pulled. Other things are only occasionally immovable, like your stubborn dog who becomes immovable every time you try to take him for a walk in the rain, rooted adamantly in the doorway as you pull on his leash.
Definitions of immovable
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not able or intended to be moved“the immovable hills”synonyms: immoveable, stabile, unmovableimmobilenot capable of movement or of being moved
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property consisting of houses and landsynonyms: real estate, real property, realtytypes:acres, demesne, estate, land, landed estateextensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own uselandthe land on which real estate is locatedfreeholdan estate held in fee simple or for lifeglebeplot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical officeleaseholdland or property held under a leasesmallholdinga piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivationhomesteadland acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead lawfarmsteadthe buildings and adjacent grounds of a farmhomesteadthe home and adjacent grounds occupied by a familyno man's landland that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)baronythe estate of a baroncountryseatan estate in the countryCrown landland that belongs to the Crownmanorthe landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)plantationan estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)entailland received by fee tailtype of:belongings, holding, propertysomething owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
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