inalterableadj.
/ɪnˈɔːltərəb(ə)l/ Not alterable; not subject to alteration or change; unchangeable, immutable; unalterable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] > unchangeable
unchangeablea1340
immovablec1374
unmovablec1384
immutable1412
unvariablec1425
indeclinable1432
unmutable?a1439
incommutablec1450
irrevocable1490
impermutable1528
irrecoverable1540
inalterable?1541
unreformable1549
inchangeable1583
beyond (also past, without) recall1597
incontrollable1605
invariable1607
unalterable1611
unrecallable1611
untransmutable1611
unreversable1616
involublea1618
irreversible1629
irreducible1633
inconvertible1646
eternal1685
intransmutable1691
unconvertible1700
unvoidable1725
unmodifiable1798
irreformable1812
irrevertible1822
irredeemable1839
true1845
influxible1871
irrevisable1884
intransformable1887
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Ej, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The impatable and inalterable thynges to be the fyrste elementes.
1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne 69 For the Godhed is inalterable and unpassible.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (vi. 2) ii. 14 The sentence at the last judgement will be inalterable.
1876 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 211 He was to make men better, by opening to them the sources of an inalterable well-being.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xviii. 331.
Derivatives
inalteraˈbility n. unchangeableness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun]
unchangeabilityc1400
equability1531
unchangeableness1548
constancy1593
immutability1593
immutableness1610
oneness1611
unvariableness1611
irrevocability1613
unalterableness1620
fixedness1626
irreversiblenessa1631
equableness1641
invariability1644
irrevocableness1649
undiminishableness1653
invariableness1654
incommutability1674
intransmutability1692
inalterability1715
inconvertibleness1727
inchangeability1773
unimprovability1814
irreversibility1824
inconvertibilitya1832
unarbitrarinessa1834
changelessness1840
inadaptability1840
unalterability1847
unvaryingness1851
monotone1856
unmodifiableness1876
unchangingness1878
unchangedness1880
irreformability1883
plateau1897
homoeostasis1926
invariance1939
plateauing1957
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. iv. iii. 72 Contrary to the received Opinion then, of the Heavens inalterability.
1856 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. II. §564 From its lightness and inalterability in the air, aluminum has been applied to the preparation of small weights.
inˈalterably adv. immutably.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adverb]
ever ylikeOE
stillc1297
unchangeablya1340
in likea1425
unchangingly1435
immutably1601
irrevocably1608
negatively1622
inalterably1631
irreversibly1635
unalterably1643
invariably1646
intransibly1654
influxibly1677
uniformly1682
eternally1694
unvariably1766
unvaryingly1814
changelessly1825
homœostatically1959
terminally1974
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §78. 329 God was inalterably resolved utterly to destroy Amalek.
1878 W. E. Henley in Academy 12 Oct. 355/1 Hopelessly and inalterably poor.
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