Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not to be altered; immutable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not capable of change; immutable; not subject to variation: as, God is an unchangeable being.

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  • adjective Not changeable; incapable of being changed or of changing; immutable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not changeable or subject to change

Etymologies

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un- +‎ changeable

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Examples

  • Elements react under certain unchangeable conditions.

    THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

  • Elements react under certain unchangeable conditions.

    The Human Drift 1917

  • In the early fervour of his fancy he had assured Mrs. Robinson his love would remain unchangeable till death, and that he would prove unalterable to his Perdita through life.

    Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

  • There are solitary rock-columns that spring straight up out of the water and dark grottoes with narrow entrances; there are barren, perpendicular precipices, and soft, leaf-clad inclines; there are small points, and small inlets, and small rolling stones that are rattlingly washed up and down with every dashing breaker; there are majestic cliff-arches which project over the water; there are sharp stones that are constantly being sprayed by a white foam; and others that mirror themselves in unchangeable dark-green still water.

    The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

  • For this reason no man of intelligence will venture to express his philosophical views in language, especially not in language that is unchangeable, which is true of that which is set down in written characters.

    The Seventh Letter, by Plato Plato 2004

  • But already the ordinary elementary particles are by no means unchangeable, which is still more strongly the case with the lot of new, similar particles discovered during later years, the transformations of which now stand at the centre of interest of atomic physicists.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • It is to the love of this light that I would exhort you, beloved; that ye would cry out by your works, when the Lord passeth by; let the voice of faith sound out, that Jesus was standing still, that is, the unchangeable, abiding wisdom of God, and the majesty of the Word of God, by which all things were made, may open your eyes.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • He is not bound by any so-called unchangeable laws.

    The Great Doctrines of the Bible William Evans 1910

  • He is not bound by any so-called unchangeable laws.

    The Great Doctrines of the Bible William Evans 1910

  • He is not bound by any so-called unchangeable laws.

    The Great Doctrines of the Bible William Evans 1910

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