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mobile
What does mobile mean?
mobile (adjective): moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use mobile in a sentence?
- She's mobile again after her skiing accident. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce mobile?
/ˈmoʊbəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does mobile come from?
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to mobile
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “mobile” mean?
moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
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necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
Not quite: that's what incumbent means.
being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched
Not quite: that's what unique means.
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
Not quite: that's what unhappy means.
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