irremovable
- adjective
- /ˌɪrəˈmuːvəbl/
- The memories of that day were irremovable from her mind, haunting her for years.
Examples
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Or the other one have or have additional irremovable taste buds in your anus?
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He felt an irremovable sense of guilt after missing the important meeting.
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OK, let's say we're all born with an irremovable tattoo on our head.
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That year, there was an irremovable orange ring around her fingernails, and we fell in love.
Fiction book (1999) -
As we shall see, Keynes, following Freud, claims these are innate and hence irremovable.
Academic text (1990) -
The CFE conferees have discussed affixing irremovable identifying tags to aircraft.
Academic text (1991) -
The stain on the tablecloth was irremovable, no matter how much she scrubbed.
Synonyms
Not able to be moved
Not able to be changed or lifted from its place
Not possible to remove completely
Cannot be removed, like a mark or memory
Not possible to remove or avoid completely
A mark, memory, or smell you cannot remove and that stays with you
Not able to be removed or erased completely
Something you cannot remove or forget
Too hard to get rid of completely, like deep roots that keep growing
Cannot be taken out from where it is
Not able to be separated from the thing it is attached to
Antonyms
How Removable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Irremovable is made of simple parts: the ir- part means 'not' and remove means 'to take away', the same root as move. So irremovable means 'not able to be taken away', which is why it describes something you cannot dismiss or get rid of.