Meaning of immutable in English

immutable

adjective

formal

/ɪˈmjuː.tə.bəl/ us

/ɪˈmjuː.t̬ə.bəl/

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not changing, or unable to be changed:

an immutable law

Some people regard grammar as an immutable set of rules.

Synonym

changeless literary

Opposites

changeable

mutable formal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

staying the same

constantCheck to make sure your oven maintains a constant temperature.
the sameYou look exactly the same as you did ten years ago!
same old same oldThe Italian restaurant is under new management, but it's just the same old same old.
unchangingHis novel is about the unchanging nature of humanity.
unchangeableThe company's position on the matter is absolute and unchangeable.

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Not able to be changed

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immutability

(Definition of immutable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

immutable | American Dictionary

immutable

adjective [ not gradable ]

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/ɪˈmju·t̬ə·bəl/

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not changing or unable to be changed:

The laws of physics are assumed to be immutable.

(Definition of immutable from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of immutable

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But policy positions are not monolithic and static, nor are actor-networks immutable and constant.

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Our language games do not come fully equipped with books of immutable rules.

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It is now possible to combine robust, rapidly deployable contemporary technology and the immutable qualities of architecture.

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The case we have before us stands as a vivid refutation of their claim that scientific standards of theory evaluation are immutable.

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This is not to say that established political parties are ideologically immutable or unable to raise new issues.

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A language ideology approach, however, recognizes that such linkages are not immutable but socially constructed and continually negotiated.

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Fetches from immutable objects cannot possibly be affected by any store instructions.

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Much of the discussion implies that they were real, immutable entities.

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Their different rights, vis-'-vis 'nationals', simply meant that there was no immutable a link to the land of their ancestors.

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The effect of socioeconomic circumstances is not immutable.

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The development of privacy law demonstrates that legal concepts are not immutable.

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The idea of a "scenario," that is, is the idea of what is given, or for practical purposes immutable.

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Older environmental explanations of racial difference increasingly gave way to a modern, biological concept of ' race ' as distinct, immutable physical type.

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Immutable, they were icons of completeness, wholeness and immortality.

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For an immutable divine person cannot choose to be otherwise.

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