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Definition of movable : 1. An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
2. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
3. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
4. Property not attached to the soil.

Synonyms:

motile, in parts, chattel, removable, separable, knocked down, furnishings, suite, lares and penates, appointment, not fixed, shiftable, transferable, personal chattel, possession, stuff, thing, furniture, turnable, fitting, liftable, machine, deployable, good, unattached, moving, loose, mobility, free, drawable, ambulatory, belonging, unstationary, traveling, mobile, owned, detachable, moveable, negotiable, maneuverable, derangeable, effect, move, property, on wheels, pullable, personal property, flat-pack, demountable, a stick of furniture, assignable, unfixate, unfastened, in sections, personal effects, unit, furnishing

inconstant, unsteady, flexible, alterable, restless, adaptable, irresolute, unsettled, vacillating, mercurial, transposable, varying, precarious, modifiable, shifting, convertible, mutable, protean, wavering, variable, adjustable, fluid, changeable, reformable, unstable, vicissitudinous, fickle, changeful, volatile, versatile, flighty, transformable, ever-changing

portable, transmittable, transportable, transferrable, conveyable

Usage examples:

• The rabbit has many enemies, hence it has need of large, movable ears to aid its acute sense of hearing. - "Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study", Ontario Ministry of Education.
• It was considered a favour when the fugitives were allowed a short insufficient delay for the sale of their movable goods. - "Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II.", Gustav Freytag.
• It is fairly clear that printing, both with blocks and with movable types, was practised in China and Japan long before it was in Europe. - "Great Inventions and Discoveries", Willis Duff Piercy.