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Definition: Unalterable |
UnalterableAdjective1. Not capable of being changed or altered; "unalterable resolve"; "an unalterable ground rule". 2. (law) of a sentence; that cannot be changed; "an unalterable death sentence". 3. Remaining the same for indefinitely long times. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unalterable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UnalterableSynonyms: changeless (adj), inalterable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: alterable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stability | Adjective: unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent; invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial; (diuturnal). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unalterable |
| English words defined with "unalterable": immutably, Inalterability, inalterable, incurable ♦ unalterably, unassailably, unchangeably. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unalterable": Dogs ♦ hard-wired logic ♦ Laws of the Medes and Persians. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | However, given the unalterable fact that high school sucks, I'd like to add that if you're lucky enough to have a good friend and a family that cares it doesn't have to suck quite as much. (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | 1778-1783 America owes France the most unalterable gratitude. 1917- . . . French comrade, your children shall be as our children. American Ouvroir Funds. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 1778-1783 America owes France the most unalterable gratitude. 1917- . . . French comrade, your children shall be as our children. American Ouvroir Funds. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
John Adams | The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Prerogative being nothing but a power, in the hands of the prince, to provide for the public good, in such cases, which depending upon unforeseen and uncertain occurrences, certain and unalterable laws could not safely direct; whatsoever shall be done manifestly for the good of the people, and the establishing the government upon its true foundations, is, and always will be, just prerogative, The power of erecting new corporations, and therewith new representatives, carries with it a supposition, that in time the measures of representation might vary, and those places have a just right to be represented which before had none; and by the same reason, those cease to have a right, and be too inconsiderable for such a privilege, which before had it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Mexico | Amnesty International called for strict enforcement of the laws governing detentions to help prevent torture, and for constitutional reforms that include an unalterable provision expressly forbidding torture and ill treatment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unalterable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Unalterable" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.67% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unalterable | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unalterable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që nuk lejon ndryshime, i vendosur (decided, decisive, determinate, determined, established, firm, fixed, hell-bent, inveterate, nervy, purposeful, resolute, resolved, set, situated, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, unfaltering, unhesitating), i qëndrueshëm (abiding, consistent, constant, durable, enduring, evergreen, fast, firm, Hardy, indissoluble, lasting, lingering, perdurable, permanent, persistent, resistant, settled, stabilized, stable, steady, surefooted, unswerving), i pandryshueshëm (changeless, constant, dyed in the wool, equable, final, hard and fast, immutable, inalterable, inflexible, invariable, set, static, unchangeable, unexceptional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبرم (approved, irrevocable, ratified), غير قابل للتغيير (immutable), راسخ (deep-seated, earthbound, fast, firm, firmly, fixed, founded, immovable, incommutable, incorrigible, ingrained, inveterate, rooted, settled, solid, sound, stabile, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sure, vested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | установен (determinate, established, fixed, imperial, invariable, regulation, rooted, routine, set, settled, stated), неизменим (unchangeable), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, undeviating, unfailing, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不"之論 (irrefutable argument, perfectly sound proposition, unalterable truth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nezvratný (conclusive, irrefragable, irrefutable, irreversible), nezmìnitelný (inalterable, incommutable, irrevocable, unchangeable), nemìnitelný (changeless, immutable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غیرمتغیر, تغییرناپذیر (Immutable, Inelastic, Ireversible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muuttumaton (unchangeable, unchanged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inaltérable (unfailing, unmodifiable, unshaken), certain (undoubted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unveränderlich (changeless, immovable, immutable, immutably, invariable, invariably, invariant, unalterably, unchangeable, unchangeably, unchanging, unmodifiable, unvarying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναλλοίωτοσ (inalterable, unvaried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megváltoztathatatlan (immovable, inalterable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inalterabile (inalterable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn chaghlaa (unalterably, unaltered), do-chaghlaa (unadaptable, unadaptable of thing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alterableunay invariável (deep-seated, fixed, invariable, same, settled, steady, undeviating), inalterável (constant, deep-seated, same, settled, steadfast, true-blue, unfading), imutável (changeless, deep-seated, settled, unconvertible). (various references) nemodificat (unchanged), invariabil (flexionless, immutable, invariable, invariably, unchanging), inalterabil (unfailing), fix (certain, clipping, constant, definite, exact, firm, fixed, fixedly, immovable, invariable, permanent, set, sharp, stable, staid, standing, staring, stationary, steady, sure, unchangeable). (various references) неизменный (changeless, constant, eternal, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariant, irrevocable, permanent, steady, sworn, unaltered, unamended, unchangeable, unchanged, unfailing, unvarying). (various references) nepromenljiv (changeless, immutable, inalterable, indeclinable, invariable, unchangeable, unchanging, undeclinable, unvarying), neizmenljiv (irreversible), koji se ne može menjati. (various references) değiştirilemez (inalterable, inconvertible, invariable, irrevocable, unchangeable), değişmez (changeless, constant, entrenched, equable, fast, fixed, flat-footed, frozen, hard and fast, immutable, inalterable, invariable, Pat, permanent, regular, rigid, set, settled, stable, static, steadfast, steady, unchangeable, unchanging, unswerving, unvarying, unwavering). (various references) незмінний (abiding, certain, changeless, eternal, firm, fixed, hardened, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariable, non-variant, one, permanent, same, unexceptional, unfailing). (various references) không thể thay đổi được, không thể sửa đổi được. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inmobile, inmobilem, inmobiles, inmobilis, inmutabilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unalterable": unalterableness, unalterablenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unalterable" (pronounced unô"lterubul) |
| 5 | -er u b u l | admirable, answerable, comparable, considerable, deliverable, discoverable, dishonorable, favorable, hon, honorable, imponderable, incomparable, inexorable, innumerable, inoperable, inseparable, insufferable, intolerable, invulnerable, irreparable, maneuverable, measurable, memorable, miserable, operable, pleasurable, preferable, recoverable, tolerable, unanswerable, unfavorable, venerable, vulnerable. |
| 4 | -u b u l | abominable, acceptable, accessible, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, culpable, curable, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, digestible, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, habitable, harvestable, heritable, horrible, hospitable, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immiscible, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, insatiable, inscrutable, insoluble, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, marketable, microwavable, miscible, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, punishable, questionable, quotable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, tunable, typeable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, vegetable, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, washable, wearable, winnable, workable. |
| 3 | -b u l | able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-l-l-n-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: alterable, learnable, relatable, tenurable, uneatable. | |
-3 letters: arbutean, laureate, rateable, rentable, tearable, tuneable, turnable. | |
-4 letters: abluent, antbear, aureate, ballute, balneal, bleater, blunter, bullate, eatable, enabler, enteral, eternal, labeler, lateral, natural, nebulae, nebular, neutral, ranulae, ratable, relabel, retable, rubella, rulable, tableau, tabular, teleran, tenable, tunable. | |
-5 letters: abater, ablate, ablaut, aerate, allure, alulae, alular, antler, antral, anural. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-l-l-n-r-t-u" | |
+4 letters: unalterableness. | |
+5 letters: unalterabilities. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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