inalterably

Examples

• All

• She knew inalterably that her decision to move was the right one.

• Later, when she looked back on it, she realized that this was the moment in which she already knew, when she had the sickening realization that their lives were about to change inalterably.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Following two years in America, however, with new experiences in a country with very different assumptions from those that prevailed in Europe, Ibsen's understanding of the Norwegian-Swedish Union and, indeed, of the nature of politics itself, would be inalterably affected.

  Academic text (1996)

• On the other hand, the observer may reasonably infer that the owner of the billboard is not inalterably opposed to the message presented thereon, for the owner has the right to exclude messages with which he disagrees, and he might be expected to exercise that right if his disagreement is sufficiently profound.

  Academic text (1995)

• Their friendship changed inalterably when they had to move to different cities.

Synonyms

I

irrevocably

vsinalterably

16 7.7

So that something cannot be changed or undone

avoids reference to reversal or undoing and stays general about change

I

irreversibly

vsinalterably

7 6.4

In a way that cannot be changed back

emphasizes general impossibility of change rather than inability to return

I

irretrievably

vsinalterably

5 8.1

In a way that cannot be changed back

frames the idea as lack of recovery rather than mere absence of change

U

unalterably

vsinalterably

2 7.0

In a way that nobody can change

is identical in meaning but exists as a different written form

I

immutably

vsinalterably

1 8.0

In a way that cannot be changed

is the same meaning but uses an alternate root and form

I

indissolubly

vsinalterably

1 8.2

In a way that cannot be separated or broken

focuses on inability to be changed rather than on physical separation

U

unchangeably

vsinalterably

6.3

No one can make it different

is the same meaning but appears as a different word form

How Permanent

inalterably

7.8

irreversibly

7 6.4

permanently

218 2.9

temporarily

222 3.2

briefly

414 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology