fixed

B2
US /fɪkst/
adj Freq #2025

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    securely placed or fastened or set

    a fixed piece of wood

  2. 2
    adj

    fixed and unmoving

    with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare

  3. 3
    adj

    Attached; affixed.

    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[…]

  4. 4
    adj

    Unable to change or vary.

    fixed assets

  5. 5
    adj

    Supplied with what one needs.

    She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.

  6. 6
    adj

    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. 7
    adj

    Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).

    a fixed tomcat

  8. 8
    adj

    Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

    The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · fixed and unmoving rigidset
3 adj · attached; affixed. boundconnectedjoined
4 adj · unable to change or vary. batelessfixedimmutableinalterableinvariableperma-permanentperpetualunabateableunalterableunchangeableundeviating
5 adj · supplied with what one needs. provided forwell-served
Word family
Derived forms basifixedcentrifixeddorsifixedfixed-pointfixed-termfixed-wingfixedlyfixednessfixetynonfixedsemifixedunfixed
Related forms bribebrokencrooked

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