movable

English

Etymology

move +‎ -able

Alternative forms

• moveable

Adjective

movable (comparative more movable, superlative most movable)

1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.e. church festivals, whose date varies from year to year.

Antonyms

• immovable

Derived terms

• movable letter

Translations

capable of being moved

• Armenian: շարժական (hy) (šaržakan), շարժուն (hy) (šaržun)
• Dutch: beweegbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: movebla (eo)
• Finnish: liikuteltava (fi), liikkuva (fi), siirrettävä (fi)

• German: beweglich (de)
• Romanian: mobil (ro)
• Ukrainian: мобільний (uk) (mobil'nyi) m, рухомий (uk) (rukhomyi) m, рухливий (uk) (rukhlyvyi)

changing from one time to another

• Finnish: liikkuva (fi)

• Ukrainian: рухомий (uk) (rukhomyi), перехідний (uk) (perekhidnyi)

Noun

movable (plural movables)

1. Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.

Translations

something movable

• Finnish: irtain (fi)

• Ukrainian: вільний (uk) (vil'nyi)

References

• movable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913