fixed

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɪkst/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪkst

Verb

fixed

simple past tense and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
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.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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 […]
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 be changed, staying the same): stable, immobile

Antonyms

(not able to be changed, staying the same): mobile

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective "fixed"

fixed-gear bicycle
fixed-point
fixed-term
fixed-term contract
fixed addresses
fixed air
fixed asset
fixed assets
fixed charge
fixed charges
fixed costs
fixed disk

fixed disks
fixed feast
fixed head coupé
fixed head coupés
fixed income
fixed incomes
fixed limit
fixed point
fixed points
fixed route
fixed satellite
fixed satellites

fixed set
fixed sets
fixed star
fixed stars
fixed wave
fixed waves
fixedly
fixedness
fixednesses
fixety

Translations

not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same

Bulgarian: постоянен (bg) (postojanen), неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
Catalan: fix (ca)
Finnish: kiinteä (fi)
French: fixé (fr)
German: fixiert (de), fix (de)
Greek: τακτός (el) (taktós)
Ancient: πηκτός (pēktós)
Irish: diongbháilte
Italian: fisso (it)

Japanese: 固定された (ja) (kotei sareta), 安定的な (anteiteki na)
Latin: status (la)
Maori: māhoi
Occitan: fix (oc), fixe, fixat
Persian: ثابت‎ (fa) (sābet), فیکس‎ (fa) (fiks)
Portuguese: fixado (pt)
Russian: фикси́рованный (ru) (fiksírovannyj), устано́вленный (ru) (ustanóvlennyj)
Turkish: sabit (tr), değişmez (tr)

stationary — see stationary

surgically rendered infertile, castrated or spayed

French: castré (fr), châtré (fr)
German: kastriert (de), sterilisiert (de) (female animals), verschnitten (de)

Italian: castrato (it) m
Occitan: castrat, crestat

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Norman: ^{(please verify)} fixe (Jersey)

Anagrams

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