Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Remaining the same; showing or undergoing no change: unchanging weather patterns; unchanging friendliness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not changing; suffering no alteration; always the same.
Wiktionary
- adj. remaining constantly unchanged
WordNet 3.0
- adj. showing little if any change
- adj. conforming to the same principles or course of action over time
Etymologies
- un- + changing. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She held out the pills, her expression unchanging and unsympathetic.”
“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.”
“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.”
“PS I can't include the word unchanging because you read Ratzinger and you realize he sees a very changed church in the future.”
“His expression unchanging, he backed away from the brink and turned.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But such a literary device was unavailable to Malle per se, so instead he had Marlier play Albertine as a kind of living mannequin, a notion that reaches its peak as she climbs onto a motorcycle and whirrs around at a ridiculous speed through the streets of Paris on a rescue mission, her wide eyes expression unchanging and unblinking as she careens through the metropolis, taking the full brunt of the coming wind.”
“Choya stood before her, his bland expression unchanging as if carved in granite.”
“To the religionist truth is something that is unchanging, that is fixed, final, and heretical to question.”
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