Mobile vs Irrepressible - What's the difference?
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Capable of being moved.
By agency of mobile phones.
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Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
* Hawthorne
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
A mobile phone ().
Something that can move.
Not containable or controllable.
* 1858 , , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 15:
(of a person) Especially high-spirited, outspoken, or insistent.
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* 1900 , , Lord Jim , ch. 19:
* 1901 , , The Octopus , Book II, Conclusion:
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Mobile is a related term of irrepressible.
As a proper noun mobile
is a city in southwest alabama.As an adjective irrepressible is
irrepressible.mobile
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(wikipedia mobile)Adjective
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- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- (Testament of Love)
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- mobile features
Antonyms
* fixed * immobile * sessileDerived terms
* MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile stationNoun
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* English heteronyms ----irrepressible
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Adjective
(en-adj)- "...here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter...
- The irrepressible landlady gave the freest expression to her feelings.
- Schomberg, . . . an irrepressible retailer of all the scandalous gossip of the place, would, with both elbows on the table, impart an adorned version of the story to any guest.
- "The irrepressible Yank is knocking at the doors of their temples and he will want to sell 'em carpet-sweepers for their harems."
People," Time :
- It was Paris' irrepressible High Fashion Doyenne Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 80, so-soing this and high-hatting that, while Women's Wear Daily took notes.
Sherman Hemsley, ‘Jeffersons’ Star, Is Dead at 74," New York Times (retrieved 16 June 2013):
- High-strung and irrepressible , George Jefferson quickly became one of America’s most popular television characters, a high-energy, combative black man who backed down to no one.