Mobile

Gulf Coast city

Mobile is a port city in southwestern Alabama, on Mobile Bay near the Gulf of Mexico.

It's Alabama's oldest city and third-largest, with a history as a French colonial settlement.

Mobile is known for claiming America's oldest Mardi Gras celebration: We drove down to Mobile for Mardi Gras. (Lowercase mobile means capable of moving.)

Opposites
movement capability

Mobileimmobile

Unable to shift

stationary · immovable · motionless · static · paralyzed

physical attachment/fixedness

Mobilefixed

Restored or immovable

stationary · permanent · anchored · immovable · installed

technology platform

Mobiledesktop

Primary computer interface

stationary · fixed-line · landline · wired · PC

Phrases
Family

mobility, automobile, mobilize, immobile, immobility, mobilized, mobilization, demobilize, mobilizing

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G