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INCOMMUTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incommutable mean?
• INCOMMUTABLE (adjective)
The adjective INCOMMUTABLE has 2 senses:
1. not subject to alteration or change
2. not interchangeable or able to substitute one for another
Familiarity information: INCOMMUTABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not subject to alteration or change
Similar:
inconvertible; untransmutable (not capable of being changed into something else)
unalterable (of a sentence; that cannot be changed)
Antonym:
commutable (subject to alteration or change)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not interchangeable or able to substitute one for another
Context example:
a rare incommutable skill
Similar:
unexchangeable (not suitable to be exchanged)
Derivation:
incommutability (the quality of being not interchangeable)
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