adj
Meaning 1
Attached; affixed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bound, connected, joined
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fixed
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/fɪkst/
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South-Asia: /fɪks(ᵻ)ɖ/
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adj
Meaning 2
Unable to move; unmovable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: immobile, unmoveable, unmovable, fixed, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless, sessile, static, rigid, stationary, stuck
Antonyms: mobile, moveable, movable, ambulatory, animate, kinetic, motile, motive, vagile
adj
Meaning 3
Unable to change or vary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- fixed assets
- I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- He looked at me with a fixed glare.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: invariable, bateless, fixed, immutable, inalterable, permanent, perma-, perpetual, unabateable, unalterable, unchangeable, undeviating
Antonyms: variable, abateable, alterable, changeable, dynamic, editable, inconstant, modifiable, mutable
adj
Meaning 4
Unlikely to change; stable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stable, consistent, equable, equal, even, even-keeled, monotonous, regular, samely, steady, uncheckered, uniform, unvaried, unvarying
Antonyms: volatile, erratic, fluid, chaotic, instable, irregular, random, rocky, unstable, unsteady, variable, varying
adj
Meaning 5
Unlikely to change; stable.
Chemically stable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stable, consistent, equable, equal, even, even-keeled, monotonous, regular, samely, steady, uncheckered, uniform, unvaried, unvarying
Antonyms: volatile, erratic, fluid, chaotic, instable, irregular, random, rocky, unstable, unsteady, variable, varying
adj
Meaning 6
Supplied with what one needs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- How are you fixed for money?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: provided for, well-served
Antonyms: lacking, wanting, absent, awanting, bereft of, deficient of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, leer, poor in, robbed of, shorn of, stripped of, void of
adj
Meaning 7
Recorded on a permanent medium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
Examples
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 8
Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, informal
Examples
- a fixed tomcat
- the she-cat has been fixed
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 9
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.
- The U.S. often relied on fixed elections to keep anti-communist dictatorships in power.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 10
Resolved; corrected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 11
Repaired.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mended, patched
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 12
Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
simple past and past participle of fix
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 14
securely placed or fastened or set
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a fixed piece of wood
- a fixed resistor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unfixed
adjective satellite
Meaning 15
incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- frozen prices
- living on fixed incomes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frozen
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 16
(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 17
fixed and unmoving- Connor Cruise O'Brien
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare
- his bearded face already has a set hollow look
- a face rigid with pain
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: set, rigid
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: gul (gheg) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Albanian: ngulur — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Asturian: fixu — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Bulgarian: постоянен (postojanen) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Bulgarian: неподвижен (nepodvižen) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Catalan: fix — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Finnish: kiinteä — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- French: fixé — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- German: fixiert — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- German: fix — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Greek: τακτός (taktós) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Ancient Greek: πηκτός (pēktós) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Hindi: स्थिर (sthir) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Hindi: निश्चित (niścit) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Irish: diongbháilte — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Italian: fisso — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Japanese: 固定された (kotei sareta) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Japanese: 安定的な (anteiteki na) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Latin: status — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Malayalam: നിശ്ചിത (niścita) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Malayalam: സ്ഥിര (sthira) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Māori: māhoi — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Occitan: fix — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Occitan: fixe — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Occitan: fixat — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Persian: ثابت (sâbet) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Persian: فیکس (fiks) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Portuguese: fixado — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Portuguese: fixo — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Russian: фикси́рованный (fiksírovannyj) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Russian: устано́вленный (ustanóvlennyj) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Spanish: fijo — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Turkish: sabit — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Turkish: değişmez — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Ukrainian: фіксо́ваний (fiksóvanyj) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- Uyghur: مۇقىم (muqim) — not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same
- French: castré — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- French: châtré — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- German: kastriert — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- German: sterilisiert — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- German: verschnitten — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- Italian: castrato — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- Occitan: castrat — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- Occitan: crestat — surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed
- Latin: refectus — repaired
- Finnish: kiinteä — Taurus/Leo/Scorpio/Aquarius
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