IMMUTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immutable mean? 

• IMMUTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMMUTABLE has 2 senses:

1. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature

2. constant and unchanging

  Familiarity information: IMMUTABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature

Synonyms:

changeless; immutable

Context example:

the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God

Antonym:

mutable (capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature)

Derivation:

immutability; immutableness (the quality of being incapable of mutation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Constant and unchanging

Context example:

the immutable laws of nature

Similar:

constant (steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection)

 Context examples 

When wrapped in an immutable Object, it is called a Double.

(Double, NCI Thesaurus)

The Abbot alone sat gray and immutable, with a drawn face and a brooding eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The blue lake and snow-clad mountains—they never change; and I think our placid home and our contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable laws.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My friend would then turn to me, quiet and pale, and would say, 'No, sir; that is impossible: I cannot do it, because it is wrong;' and would become immutable as a fixed star.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)