immobile

adj

1. (not-comparable)Fixed, not movable.

   “This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.”

noun

1. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).

   “[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]”

   “Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.”

   “One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]”