unchangeable
Britishadjective
Explanation
Anything that doesn't alter or shift over time is unchangeable, like the unchangeable rules at your school or your unchangeable conviction that pistachio is the tastiest flavor of ice cream. Things that can't be changed are unchangeable, and this adjective tends to be used for describing really big ideas, like the unchangeable laws of the universe or the unchangeable nature of love. You can use it for anything that seems steadfast, firm, or permanent, like your unchangeable affection for your best friend or your sister's unchangeable insistence that she has to ride in the front seat.
Example Sentences
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Unchangeable, they have not changed a hair on their distinctive prole pompadours, which are still animated by Mike Judge with deliberate crudity.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2011
It was the varying stand-points or mental states of the disciples, which give us such different manifestations of the Unchangeable.
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
To the Father Ineffable, Inconceivable, Unthinkable, Unchangeable, all things have been made like in their being.
From The Gnôsis of the Light by Lamplugh, F.
All things are mutable, and change alone Unchangeable.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius
Can it alter the will of the Unchangeable?
From The Great Discovery by Maclean, Norman
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