The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adj. Biology Moving or having the power to move spontaneously: motile spores.
adj. Psychology Of or relating to mental imagery that arises primarily from sensations of bodily movement and position rather than from visual or auditory sensations.
adj. of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement
adj. Producing motion.
n. A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Capable of spontaneous motion; executing automatic or apparently voluntary movements: as, a motile flagellum; motile cilia, spores, etc.
n. One in whose mind motor images are predominant or especially distinct.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action
adj. (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement
Word Usage
"Crowds are mobile, but they are also motile, that is to say, fickle."