mobile
mobile is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
- 2.Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.
- 3.Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
- 4.(Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
- 5.The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." South.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- affectibility
- alive
- aromatic
- chicken
- core
- die
- enthusiastic
- excitability
- excitable
- expressive
- fastidious
- gushing
- have
- heart
- hearted
- highflying
- impassionable
- impressibility
- impressible
- impressionable
- inmost
- lively
- mettlesome
- mobility
- moral
- nerve
- pain
- physical
- place
- point
- pour
- quick
- raw
- romantic
- rose
- salt
- sensibility
- sensible
- sensibleness
- sensibly
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is mobile.
- What is characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily called?
- What is easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne called?
- What is changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features called?
- What is capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement called?
- What is the mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." South called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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