changeless
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of changeless
Explanation
If something is changeless, it's permanent, staying the same over time. Your dad's routine may seem changeless, identical day after day — until the morning he decides to start raising goats in your backyard. Some things appear to be changeless, like the stars in the sky. Larger concepts are often described as changeless: your best friend might believe that morality is changeless, while you think that notions of right and wrong evolve over time. The adjective changeless is formed by adding the suffix -less, "lacking," to change, which comes from a Latin root meaning "to exchange."
Example Sentences
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Like the desert to the city, the tags are the comforting counterpoints to his plants, changeless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
But in many regards, the service industry is changeless.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023
In standard scientific cosmologies, we live on a large, stable rock governed by changeless laws of nature.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2022
As a substance it lay outside any given moment: Having already changed and thereby become changeless, it was no longer subject to time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
Papa read the papers and studied the changeless peaks, while all around us other families were moving out, forcing our name ever higher on the list.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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