| Main Entry: | mobile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | movable, travelling |
Synonyms: |
adaptable, ambulatory, changeable, fluid, free, itinerant, liquid, locomotive, loose, migrant, migratory, motile, motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, peripatetic, portable, roaming, roving, unsettled, unstable, unstationary, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile, wandering |
Antonyms: |
fixed, immobile, stable, stationary, unmovable |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
Synonyms: |
alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
Antonyms: |
abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | changeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erratic |
Synonyms: |
agitated, capricious, changeful, commutative, convertible, fickle, fitful, flighty, fluctuating, fluid, impulsive, inconstant, indecisive, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, permutable, protean, restless, reversible, revocable, shifting, skittish, spasmodic, transformable, transitional, uncertain, unpredictable, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variant, varying, versatile, volatile, wavering, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
certain, changeless, constant, fixed, lasting, reliable, stable, steady, sure, unchangeable, undeviating |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
Synonyms: |
alive, allusive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, pictorial, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, revelatory, showy, significant, silver-tongued, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm |
Antonyms: |
expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
| Main Entry: | fluid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, changeable |
Synonyms: |
adjustable, changeful, flexible, floating, fluctuating, indefinite, malleable, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable |
Antonyms: |
inflexible, stable, unchangeable |
| Main Entry: | flying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the air, winged |
Synonyms: |
aerial, aeronautical, airborne, avian, drifting, express, flapping, fleet, floating, fluttering, gliding, hovering, mercurial, mobile, on the wing, plumed, soaring, speedy, streaming, swooping, volant, volar, volitant, waving, winging, zooming |
Antonyms: |
ground, grounded |
| Main Entry: | mercurial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flighty, temperamental |
Synonyms: |
blowing hot and cold, bubbleheaded, buoyant, capricious, changeable, effervescent, elastic, erratic, expansive, fickle, flaky, flip*, fluctuating, gaga, gay, impulsive, inconstant, irregular, irrepressible, lighthearted, lively, lubricious, mad, mobile, movable, quicksilver, resilient, short-fuse, spirited, sprightly, ticklish, unpredictable, unstable, up-and-down, variable, volatile, yo-yo |
Antonyms: |
calm, tranquil, unchangeable, unperturbable, unvarying |
| Main Entry: | migrant/migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, traveling |
Synonyms: |
casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, immigrant, immigrating, impermanent, itinerant, migrative, migratorial, mobile, nomad, nomadic, on the move, passing over, passing through, peripatetic, ranging, roving, seasonal, shifting, temporary, tramp, transient, transmigratory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering |
Antonyms: |
staying |
| Main Entry: | movable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transportable |
Synonyms: |
adaptable, adjustable, ambulatory, conveyable, deployable, detachable, in parts, liftable, loose, mobile, motile, moving, not fastened, not fixed, on wheels, portable, portative, removable, separable, shiftable, transferable, turnable, unattached, unfastened, unstationary, unsteady |
Antonyms: |
fixed, immovable, permanent, unmovable, untransportable |
| Main Entry: | peripatetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constantly traveling |
Synonyms: |
ambulant, itinerant, itinerate, migrant, mobile, nomadic, perambulant, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
Antonyms: |
fixed, settled |