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Unalterable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unalterable is an adjective meaning Incapable of being altered, or of changing.

Meaning

Incapable of being altered, or of changing.

More Meanings

  1. Irreversible, irrevocable.

Example Sentences

... every statute in the Bible and in the law books is an attempt to defeaat a law of God—in other words an unalterable and indestructible law of nature.
People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.
For instance, we’d need to make one of the following assumptions: (1) that the system will be programmed with an unalterable goal preservation meta-goal, (2) that the training process would select for such a meta-goal, or (3) that the adoption of the meta-goal itself is instrumentally convergent.

Synonyms for unalterable

Depending on context, synonyms include inalterable, last, incurable, unchangeable, final, incommutable.

Antonyms for unalterable

Common opposites include alterable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inalterable, incurable, unchangeable, incommutable, last, final.

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