Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Remaining the same; showing or undergoing no change.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not changing; suffering no alteration; always the same.
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- adjective
remaining constantly unchanged
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing little if any change
- adjective conforming to the same principles or course of action over time
Etymologies
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Examples
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She held out the pills, her expression unchanging and unsympathetic.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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She held out the pills, her expression unchanging and unsympathetic.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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She held out the pills, her expression unchanging and unsympathetic.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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She held out the pills, her expression unchanging and unsympathetic.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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Staying on message appears “strong and resolute†in unchanging circumstance but when your house is burning down right where you stand, people think your are just being “stubborn†before calling you first, “out of touch†and then plain “stupid†like Putin just did.
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The best gloss you can put on the natural/supernatural discussion is that science supposes the world to be governed by certain unchanging natural laws such that the world unfolds through a series of causal interactions that are, in principle, predictable.
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PS I can't include the word unchanging because you read Ratzinger and you realize he sees a very changed church in the future.
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His expression unchanging, he backed away from the brink and turned.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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She made a tiny gesture towards her stepdaughter, and Eleanor fought to keep her expression unchanging, as she saw, more clearly than she ever had before, a lance of muddy yellow light shoot from the tip of that finger towards her, and briefly illuminate her.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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True, there was that change which is always the first to arrest attention in places that are conventionally called unchanging — a higher and broader vegetation at every familiar corner than at the former time.
Two on a Tower 2006
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