different between immobile vs idle

English

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin imm?bilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

immobile (not comparable)

1. not mobile, not movable
2. fixed, unable to be moved

Synonyms

• fixed
• sessile (botany)
• unmovable

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin imm?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.m?.bil/

Adjective

immobile (plural immobiles)

1. motionless, unmoving, still, stationary
2. immovable, immobile
3. invariable

Related terms

Further reading

• “immobile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

immobile

1. inflection of immobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imm?bilis (“immobile, immovable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?m?.bi.le/
• Rhymes: -?bile

Adjective

immobile (plural immobili)

1. still, motionless, stationary
2. immovable, immobile

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

• immobilmente

Noun

immobile m (plural immobili)

1. real estate, immovable property, building, immovables

   Synonyms: bene immobile, proprietà, (building) edificio, casa, caseggiato, costruzione, palazzo, fabbricato

Related terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im?mo?.bi.le/, [?m?mo?b????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im?mo.bi.le/, [im?m??bil?]

Adjective

imm?bile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of imm?bilis

References

• immobile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English ?del, from Proto-Germanic *?dalaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (“vain, meaningless”), German Low German iedel (“vain, idle”), German eitel (“vain, conceited”), and possibly Old Norse illr ("bad"; > English ill).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??d(?)l, IPA^(key): /?a?d(?)l/
• Rhymes: -a?d?l
• Homophones: idol, idyll, idyl (US pronunciation)

Adjective

idle (comparative more idle, superlative most idle)

1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
2. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
3. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
4. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”

5. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

6. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (of no importance): pointless
• See also Thesaurus:lazy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

idle (third-person singular simple present idles, present participle idling, simple past and past participle idled)

1. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.

   to idle in an IRC channel

   • 1939, Joan Evans, Chateaubriand (page 32)

     He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo […]

3. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

Derived terms

• idler

Related terms

• (sense 3) idling speed

Translations

Noun

idle (plural idles)

1. The state of idling, of being idle.
2. (gaming) An idle animation.
3. (gaming) An idle game.

   Synonyms: idle game, incremental game

References

• idle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• idle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied