Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not subject or susceptible to change.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; not subject to mutation; unchangeable; invariable; unalterable.
- In zoology, not subject to variation in different individuals of a species; permanent: as, immutable characters or marks
Wiktionary
- adj. Unable to be changed without exception.
- adj. programming, of a variable Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially, such as a constant.
- n. Something that cannot be changed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature
Etymologies
- From French, ultimately from Latin immutabilis ("unchangable"); im- + mutable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But let us step back further: must stage-genres remain immutable, bounded wholes, or are they subject to transformation?”
“Far from respecting certain immutable forms, each new book tends to constitute the laws of its functioning at the same time that it produces their destruction.”
“The fact that the Senate Rules tend to be immutable is a function of the six year term and that only one-third up for reelection every two years.”
With regard to the health care rationing bill passing: Don’t get mad. | RedState
“Even space, seemingly immutable, is able to be truncated by circumstance.”
“JPG: Your argument that science hadn’t proven homosexuality to be immutable is fallacious for obvious reasons, science can’t prove a negative!”
“Your argument that science hadn’t proven homosexuality to be immutable is fallacious for obvious reasons, science can’t prove a negative!”
“Bringing it back to the metals it’s no wonder that gold continues to move up so quickly (even when over bought) as no chart can tell you that the assumptions used to decipher it are no longer relevant and by what’s happening in rest of the economy taking these assumptions as valid and immutable is reckless at best.”
“Martin, who has established certain immutable rules for his transporter business, manages to break every single one again, just as he’s done in his previous films.”
“Youâre suggesting that supposed âIQâ tests actually measure some mysterious something innate (and immutable, that is to say, unvarying).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
“Youâre suggesting that supposed âIQâ tests actually measure some mysterious something innate and immutable, that is to say, unvarying.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
Lists
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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echt
echt, apocalypse, resurgence, forthright, logorrhea, mercurial, torrid, exorcise, obscure, intrusive, morose, vindictive and 99 more...
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allover
reintegrate, spight, surveillant, harmonize, Colophon, workplace, bigoted, unsighted, bridgework, salutation, voltmeter, octane and 159 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 124 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1834 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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cuzican's Words
lexicon, tirade, innocuous, apathy, narcissist, subtle, agnostic, plethora, malleable, catalyst, pithy, irate and 116 more...
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL I
iconoclast, idiosyncrasy, ignoble, ignominious, illicit, illusory, illustrious, imbibe, imbue, immaculate, immaterial, immolate and 155 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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kingparton Founded on universal and immutable principles, the church can never grow old or obsolete, but is the church for all times and places, for all ranks and conditions of men.
Orestes A. Brownson, The American Republic Nov 12, 2011