mobile
Plural: mobiles
Noun
- A sculptural artwork with suspended, moving parts.
- a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
- a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
- sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
- A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- Ellipsis of mobile phone.
- The internet accessed via mobile devices.
- One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
- Synonym of mob (“non-player character”).
Adjective Satellite
- migratory
- "a restless mobile society"
- having transportation available
- capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
- "a highly mobile face"
- affording change (especially in social status)
- "upwardly mobile"
Adjective
- moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
- "a mobile missile system"
- "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
Adj
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Examples
- a mobile home
- He wished his Scrabble tiles were more MOBILE, allowing him to rearrange them into bingos effortlessly.
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- mobile features
- mobile internet
- mobile number
- there are many business opportunities in mobile
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
Synonyms
fluid, Mobile River, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering, afoot, ambulatory, animate, astir, cell phone, changeable, changeful, changeling, cursory, dynamic, everchanging, excitable, fickle, flowy, fluent, fluxive, free-flowing, in motion, inconstant, kinetic, labile, liquid, mob, mobile, motile, motive, movable, moving, on the move, on the wing, runny, thin, under sail, unstable, unstill, vagile, variable, watery, wavering
Scrabble Score: 10
mobile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmobile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mobile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary