Immutable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immutable \Im*mu"ta*ble\, a. [L. immutabilis; pref. im- not +
     mutabilis mutable. See {Mutable}.]
     Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change;
     unchangeable; unalterable.
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           That by two immutable things, in which it was
           impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
           consolation.                             --Heb. vi. 18.
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           Immutable, immortal, infinite,
           Eternal King.                            --Milton.
     -- {Im*mu"ta*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*mu"ta*bly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immutable
       adj : not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or
             quality or nature; "the view of that time was that all
             species were immutable, created by God" [syn: {changeless}]
             [ant: {mutable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  256 Moby Thesaurus words for "immutable":
     abiding, accordant, adamant, adamantine, age-long, aged, alike,
     all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, ancient,
     antique, balanced, boundless, cast-iron, changeless, chronic,
     consistent, consonant, constant, continuing, continuous,
     correspondent, creating, creative, diligent, diuturnal, dogged,
     dour, durable, enduring, equable, equal, eternal,
     eternally the same, even, evergreen, everlasting, faithful, firm,
     fixed, flat, flinty, frozen, glorious, good, grim, hallowed, hard,
     hard-core, hardy, highest, holy, homogeneous, immobile, immortal,
     immovable, implacable, impliable, inalterable, incommutable,
     inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indomitable, inductile,
     industrious, inelastic, inert, inexorable, inextensible,
     inextensile, inextensional, infinite, inflexible, insistent,
     insusceptible of change, intact, intractable, intractile,
     intransient, intransigent, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate,
     invincible, inviolate, iron, irreconcilable, irresilient,
     irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, just, lasting, level,
     limitless, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term,
     longeval, longevous, loving, loyal, luminous, macrobiotic,
     majestic, making, measured, mechanical, merciful, methodic,
     monolithic, never-tiring, noble, nonelastic, nonreturnable,
     nonreversible, nonstretchable, numinous, obstinate, of a piece,
     of long duration, of long standing, omnipotent, omnipresent,
     omniscient, one, ordered, orderly, patient, patient as Job,
     perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual,
     perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
     plodding, plugging, preoccupied, quiescent, radiant, rapt, regular,
     relentless, remaining, resolute, reverseless, rigid, rigorous,
     robotlike, rock-ribbed, sacred, sedulous, sempervirent, shaping,
     single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, sovereign,
     stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, steely,
     stern, stiff, stubborn, supreme, sustained, systematic, tenacious,
     timeless, tireless, torpid, tough, ubiquitous, unabating,
     unaffected, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbending,
     unbounded, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging,
     unchecked, uncompromising, unconquerable, undaunted, undefined,
     undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undifferentiated,
     undiscouraged, undiversified, undrooping, unextendible,
     unextensible, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging,
     unflexible, unflinching, ungiving, uniform, unintermitting,
     uninterrupted, unlimber, unlimited, unmalleable, unmodifiable,
     unmovable, unmoved, unnodding, unpliable, unpliant, unrelaxing,
     unrelenting, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unruffled,
     unshifting, unsleeping, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring,
     untractable, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering,
     unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive,
     vital, weariless
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IMMUTABLE. What cannot be removed, what is unchangeable. The laws of God 
  being perfect, are immutable, but no human law can be so considered.