UNCHANGEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unchangeable mean? 

• UNCHANGEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHANGEABLE has 1 sense:

1. not changeable or subject to change

  Familiarity information: UNCHANGEABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCHANGEABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not changeable or subject to change

Context example:

one of the unchangeable facts of life

Similar:

changeless; unalterable (remaining the same for indefinitely long times)

confirmed (of persons; not subject to change)

fixed; frozen (incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.)

carved in stone; set in stone (no longer changeable)

stable; static; unchanging (showing little if any change)

Also:

constant (steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection)

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

Attribute:

changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

Antonym:

changeable (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)

Derivation:

unchangeability; unchangeableness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

 Context examples 

All this time, the figure was unchanged, and looked unchangeable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Unchanged and unchangeable," was the reply.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Again she regarded me so icily, I felt at once that her opinion of me—her feeling towards me—was unchanged and unchangeable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was a little, sharp-eyed woman, who used to wear, when she was dressed, one unchangeable cap, ornamented with some artificial flowers, and two artificial butterflies supposed to be hovering above the flowers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)