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”
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synonyms:
immoveable, stabile, unmovable
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immobile
not capable of movement or of being moved
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immobile
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property consisting of houses and land
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synonyms:
real estate, real property, realty
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types:
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acres, demesne, estate, land, landed estate
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
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land
the land on which real estate is located
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dead hand, mortmain
real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation)
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freehold
an estate held in fee simple or for life
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glebe
plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
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leasehold
land or property held under a lease
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smallholding
a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation
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homestead
land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
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farmstead
the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm
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homestead
the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
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no man's land
land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
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feoff, fief
a piece of land held under the feudal system
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barony
the estate of a baron
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countryseat
an estate in the country
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Crown land
land that belongs to the Crown
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manor
the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it)
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seigneury, seigniory, signory
the estate of a seigneur
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hacienda
a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries
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plantation
an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
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entail
land received by fee tail
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type of:
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belongings, holding, property
something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
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