mass; herd, pack, swarm, flock, drove, bevy, shoal, school, gaggle; jam, press, crush; tribe, crew, band, troop, group, company, party, body, gathering; assemblage, collection, accumulation, amassment, array; agglomeration, conglomeration, clump; lot, pack, bunch, batch, Inf. raft; assortment, variety, medley; ocean, sea, world.
3. populace, commonalty, vulgar masses, public, general public; hoi polloi, rank and file, great unwashed, citizenry; every Tom, Dick and Harry; proletariat, the four million, commoners, peasantry, peons; bourgeoisie, middle class; lower class, riffraff, dregs of society, ragtag and bobtail, canaille, doggery.
4. gang, syndicate, organized crime, Cosa Nostra; Mafia, hoodlums, bandits, hitmen, gangsters.
-adj. 5. lawless, disorderly, anarchic, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, unbridled; riotous, violent, ferocious, frenzied, turbulent; boisterous, obstreperous, tumultuous; manic, crazy, excitable; irrational, insane, Sl. nutty, Sl. screwy, unbalanced; barbarous, ravening, wild, headstrong, intemperate.
6. vulgar, uncivilized, unpolished, ill-bred; unintelligent, uninformed; common, base, crass, proletarian, plebian; loutish, boorish, doltish, cloddish, hick.
-v. 7. crowd around, clamor, raise a hullabaloo, brawl; attack, assail, assault; descend on, swoop down on, march on or against; charge, rush at, raid; go at, strike at.
mobile, adj. 1. movable, Biol, motile, portable, transportable, unstationary, unfixed; moving, motive, motional, kinetic, in motion, unquiet; traveling, itinerant, peripatetic, migratory, migrant, unsettled, roving, roaming, nomadic, vagrant; active, on the move, on the go, busy, on the wing, volitant, Inf. hyper, Sl. go-go.
2. fluid, flowing, running, runny, oozy; syrupy, watery, liquidy, liquescent, liquid, molten.
3. changeable, transformable, transmutable, flexible, malleable, plastic, (of the face) animated, expressive, sensitive; adaptive, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous; changing, changeful, varying, variable, protean; vacil-latory, vacillant, vacillating, fluctuating, fluctuant, mutable, chameleonlike, chameleonic, inconstant, unstable; mercurial, capricious, fickle, faddish, whimsical, flighty.
4. responsive, reactive, agile, nimble, quick, prompt, ready, alert; impulsive, impetuous, rash, hasty; volatile, excitable, temperamental, moody.
mobility, n. 1. movability, fluidity, power of movement; locomotion, ambulation; Biol, motility.
2. upward mobility Sociology, advancement, advancing, betterment, upgrading; progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, success.
mobilize, v. 1. summon, call up, call to arms, raise troops, draft, enlist, conscript, levy, Both Mil. activate, put on active duty or alert; muster, assemble, gather together, collect, round up or in, amass, accumulate, group or mass together; marshal, arrange, organize, systematize, put in order, set up, line up, array.
2. adapt, adjust, modify, alter, change, permute, make suitable; convert, transform, metamorphose, transmute, transshape, remodel, restyle, recast; reorganize, reorder, permutate, shift; prepare, Inf. prep, ready, get [s.t.j ready, put in a state of readiness, outfit, arm.
mob rule, n. mobocracy, ochlocracy, vigilante rule, vigilantism, lynch law, Ku Kluxism, Ku Kluxery, taking the law into one's own hands; terrorism, Reign of Terror, violence, brute force; lawlessness, riot, turmoil, tumult, chaos, pandemonium, mayhem, bedlam, confusion, mess, disorderliness, disorder; anarchy, Hobbesian universe, Bakuninism, absence of government, nihilism.
