unchangeable

Examples

• All

• Indigenous knowledge within the ongoing colonization process too often is seen as historical and unchangeable.

  Academic text (2004)

• Entity theory is when individuals perceive their intelligence as fixed and unchangeable.

  Academic text (2008)

• And what among eternal things is more excellent than God, whose nature alone is unchangeable?

  Academic text (2003)

• Like readers of an already written novel, we simply do not yet know the unchangeable outcome of our own actions.

  Academic text (1993)

• But then, you have a mind that is uniquely unchangeable.

  The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

• They are unchangeable, and there are no exceptions.

  Upside Down (2012)

• Predictions such as these are inherently bad because they suggest that the future is predetermined and unchangeable.

  Academic text (2012)

• Many modern non-Muslims observed that Muslims believe in an unchangeable destiny mapped out in advance.

  Academic text (2015)

• The birthright, which is at once pre-modern and unchangeable, became the prerequisite to obtaining a membership in the modern Japanese nation-state.

  Academic text (2003)

• The palpable sign of the approval of Watertown's best and brightest stood here: huge, impassive, unchangeable.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

I

irreversible

vsunchangeable

46 6.0

Not able to be changed back to how it was

covers inability to be changed overall, not only reversal

I

immutable

vsunchangeable

• Specialized

14 7.3

No one can change it after it is made

is the general idea of being unable to be altered in any case

I

irrevocable

vsunchangeable

14 8.1

Impossible to change or undo

is about inability to change more generally, not only legal acts

S

set in stone

vsunchangeable

• Informal

10 3.9

Not able to be changed

says the same fixed idea but uses an idiomatic image

U

unshakeable

vsunchangeable

• UK

4 4.4

Very firm and cannot be changed or weakened

focuses on simple inability to change rather than on strong determination

U

unalterable

vsunchangeable

2 6.4

Impossible to change

expresses the same fixedness using a simple general term

I

indissoluble

vsunchangeable

• Formal

1 8.8

Cannot be ended or broken, for example a marriage

focuses on lasting permanence rather than physical dissolution specifically

I

inalterable

vsunchangeable

1 7.4

Not able to be changed later

states the same general impossibility but in more common wording

I

indefeasible

vsunchangeable

• Formal

1 9.9

A right or claim that cannot be taken away

is broader, applying to any thing that cannot be changed

U

unmodifiable

vsunchangeable

7.1

No one can change it

covers the same lack of change but in broader plain use

I

inconvertible

vsunchangeable

9.3

You cannot change it into another form

is the more general idea of not being able to change form

U

untransmutable

vsunchangeable

• Specialized

9.9

Cannot change into a different form or substance

expresses the same resistance but limited to material or form change

I

incommutable

vsunchangeable

9.9

Not able to be changed or replaced

is the simpler statement of general inability to be changed

I

irreformable

vsunchangeable

9.5

Something you cannot change or fix

is the plain inability to change rather than a moral reform issue

U

unbudgeable

vsunchangeable

• Informal

8.4

Impossible to move or change

is similar but uses a less forceful physical image of fixity

Antonyms

C

changeable

8 3.5

Able to become different or not stay the same

M

modifiable

1 5.1

Can be changed to fit new needs

How Changeable

volatile

77 7.0

changeable

8 3.5

variable

67 3.6

unchangeable

5 4.0

stable

473 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology