unalterable
2
6.4
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈɔltərəbəl/
:
inalterable
- The rules of the game are unalterable, and every player must adhere to them.
We can wait and accept all that is unalterable as part of the game.
- We can wait and accept all that is unalterable as part of the game.
- Einstein said time and space or illusions of consciousness, albeit persistent ones, that there is some bedrock of love, unalterable love.
Examples
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A constitution established by the people is to be unalterable by the government.
Academic text (2001) -
Yet, he was a church member, and anything sanctioned by this fundamentalist religious organization was unquestioned and unalterable.
Academic text (1991) -
We can wait and accept all that is unalterable as part of the game.
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If that is your unalterable view, I'm afraid we shall not get very far.
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Neither is there an unalterable relationship between capitalism and health.
Academic text (1993) -
Growth is "progressive and unalterable" except for disease or trauma.
Academic text (2004) -
In the deepest, most unalterable sense, he was an invisible man.
Fiction book (1994) -
But the truth, the truth, is sacred, unalterable, chiseled into the stone of the foundation of our Republic.
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The grandeur of the unalterable is granted to active popular traditions or to cultural objects.
Academic text (1993) -
Across the Islamic Republic's political spectrum, officials see this as an unalterable pillar of regime policy, any questioning of which merits a harsh response.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
46
6.0
Not able to be changed back to how it was
14
7.3
No one can change it after it is made
14
8.1
Impossible to change or undo
10
3.9
Not able to be changed
5
4.0
You cannot make it different
4
4.4
Very firm and cannot be changed or weakened
2
5.5
Not changing over time
1
8.8
Cannot be ended or broken, for example a marriage
1
7.0
Not willing to change your mind even under pressure
1
7.4
Not able to be changed later
1
9.9
A right or claim that cannot be taken away
1
9.6
Not able to be fixed or made better
No one can change it
Not able to be changed or replaced
Something you cannot change or fix
Cannot fail, decay, or be destroyed and always stays true
Impossible to move or change
A person who does not change their opinion when others try to persuade them
Antonyms
How Changeable
3
7.7
8
3.5
473
2.3
2
6.4
- Specialized
14
7.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unalterable is built from un- meaning 'not' and alter meaning 'to change', the same root you see in alter and alternative. So unalterable means 'not able to be changed' or fixed.