1. Unchanging and unmoving
   "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare";
   - set, rigid
    
2. (of a number) having an unchanging value
   "The fixed interest rate provided stability for the loan";
   - constant
    
3. Securely placed, fastened or set
   "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor"
    
4. Incapable of being changed, moved or undone
   "living on fixed incomes";
   - frozen

1. Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
   "She fixed her laptop";
   - repair, mend, bushel [US], doctor [informal]
    
2. Cause to be firmly attached
   "she fixed her gaze on the man";
   - fasten, secure
    
3. Establish or state a specific value or set of values
   "fix the variables";
   - specify, set, determine, define, limit
    
4. Make fixed, stable or stationary
   "let's fix the picture to the frame";
   - fixate
    
5. Put (something somewhere) firmly
   "fix your eyes on this spot";
   - situate, posit, deposit
    
6. Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
   "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill";
   - prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
    
7. [informal] (of food) combine or process (e.g. heat) to make ready for eating
   "fix breakfast for the guests, please";
   - cook, ready, make, prepare
    
8. Set or place definitely
   "Let's fix the date for the party!"
    
9. (cytology) kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
   "The lab technician fixed the tissue samples in formalin"
    
10. Make infertile
    "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilities are fixed";
    - sterilize, sterilise [Brit], desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise [Brit]
     
11. [informal] Take vengeance on or get even
    "That'll fix him good!";
    - pay back, pay off, get
     
12. [informal] Influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
    "fix a race"
     
13. To be about to do something
    "I'm fixing to leave for work"

See also: determinate, fast, firm, geostationary, geosynchronous, immobile, leaded, make up, nonmoving, secure, stationary, taped, unadjustable, unchangeable, unmoving

Type of: act upon, alter, ameliorate, amend, attach, better, change, choose, constitute, devise, establish, even up, found, get back, get even, get up, improve, influence, institute, lay, machinate, make from scratch, meliorate, mend, modify, operate, operate on, organise [Brit], organize, pick out, place, plant, pose, position, prepare, put, select, set, take, work

Antonym: unfixed

Encyclopedia: Fixed