fixed

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɪkst/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪkst

Verb

fixed

  1. simple past and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

  1. Attached; affixed.
    Synonyms: bound, connected, joined
    • 1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
      The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally []
  2. Not able to move; unmovable.
    Synonyms: immobile, unmoveable, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile
    Antonyms: mobile, moveable, movable; see also Thesaurus:movable
  3. Not able to change or vary.
    Synonyms: invariable; see also Thesaurus:immutable
    Antonyms: variable; see also Thesaurus:mutable
    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.
  4. Unlikely to change; Stable.
    Synonyms: stable; see also Thesaurus:steady
    Antonyms: volatile; see also Thesaurus:unsteady
    1. (chemistry) Chemically stable.
  5. Supplied with what one needs.
    Synonyms: provided for, well-served
    Antonyms: lacking, wanting; see also Thesaurus:lacking
    She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
  6. (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.
  7. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
    a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
  8. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
  9. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
  10. Repaired
    Synonyms: mended, patched
  11. (astrology) Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.
    Coordinate terms: cardinal, mutable

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective fixed

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