English Online Dictionary. What means fixed? What does fixed mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪkst/
- Rhymes: -ɪkst
Verb
fixed
- simple past and past participle of fix
Adjective
fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)
- Attached; affixed.
- Not able to move; unmovable.
- Not able to change or vary.
- 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.
- Unlikely to change; Stable.
- (chemistry) Chemically stable.
- Supplied with what one needs.
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- (law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
- 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.
- (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
- a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- Repaired
Synonyms
- (Not able to move): immobile, unmoveable/unmovable
- (Not able to change): Thesaurus: immutable
- (Not able to vary): invariable
- (Unlikely to change): stable
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "Not able to move"): mobile, moveable/movable
- (antonym(s) of "Not able to change"): Thesaurus: mutable
- (antonym(s) of "Not able to vary"): variable
- (antonym(s) of "Unlikely to change"): volatile
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- broken
- crooked
- bribe
Anagrams
- defix