ineffaceable

Examples

• All

• The ineffaceable memories of their travels together always brought a smile to her face.

• Once the need to "deal clearly" forces Strachey to demystify the mutineers' murmuring, Hopkins's indictment of colonial elite innovation becomes an ineffaceable part of the archive.

  Academic text (2018)

• He made an ineffaceable mistake when he signed the contract without reading it first.

Synonyms

I

indelible

vsineffaceable

23 7.0

Not able to be removed, erased, or forgotten

is broader applying to anything impossible to erase remove or forget

I

ineradicable

vsineffaceable

1 8.8

Not possible to remove completely

also implies it cannot be forgotten

U

unerasable

vsineffaceable

1 7.1

Cannot be removed, like a mark or memory

adds that it cannot be forgotten

I

inexpungeable

vsineffaceable

9.9

Not able to be removed or erased completely

also covers being impossible to forget

I

inexpungible

vsineffaceable

9.9

A mark, memory, or smell you cannot remove and that stays with you

adds that they also cannot be forgotten

I

irremovable

vsineffaceable

7.2

Something you cannot get rid of

emphasizes that it cannot be forgotten

I

ineliminable

vsineffaceable

9.9

Not possible to remove or avoid completely

refers to being impossible to forget rather than unavoidable

N

nonremovable

vsineffaceable

4.8

Cannot be taken out from where it is

means lasting in memory rather than just fixed in place

Antonyms

E

effaceable

9.3

Able to be removed or erased

How Permanent

ineffaceable

9.9

permanent

650 3.2

durable

56 3.6

temporary

557 3.0

short-lived

49 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology