immutable
immutable adjective: unable to be changed without exception.
Adjective
immutable (not comparable)
- Unable to be changed without exception.
- The government has enacted an immutable law.
- Mutable as is our nature, it delights in the immutable: and we expect as much constancy as if all time, to say nothing of our own changeableness, had not shewn that ever "the fashion of this world passeth away."1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 171
- Synonyms:
- unchangeable
- Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.
- Constants are immutable.
Noun
immutable (plural immutables)
- Something that cannot be changed.
immutable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
immutable in Tamil
- நிலையான, மாறும் இயல்பற்ற, மாற்ற முடியாத, மாற்றரு
immutable in Urdu
- ناقابل تغیر
immutable in Bengali
- অপরিবর্তনীয়
immutable in Malayalam
- rigid, fixed, set
- മാറ്റമില്ലാത്ത, പരിവര്ത്തനവിധേയമല്ലാത്ത, മാറ്റാൻ കഴിയാത്ത, മാറാത്ത, സ്ഥിരമായ, സ്ഥിരം
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- immutable in Kannada
- ಬದಲಾಗದ, ಮಾರ್ಪಡದ, ಮಾರ್ಪಾಟಾಗದ, ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ ಮಾಡಲಾಗದ
- immutable in Persian
- دگرشناپذیر
Examples of immutable in a sentence
- A record is a special kind of class that's designed to work well with immutable (readonly) data.
- Because of this, immutable POJOs are common and may have value semantics.
- There is nothing immutable about this landscape and its wildlife; its heritage is one of change.
Synonyms of immutable
- unchangeable
- bateless
- fixed
- inalterable
- invariable
- permanent
- perma-
- perpetual
- unabateable
- unalterable
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Antonyms
Forms of immutable
| plural | immutables |
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Origin of immutable
From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable.
Words formed from immutable
- immutableness
- immutably
- strongly immutable
- weakly immutable
Questions about immutable
- What does immutable mean?
- Immutable means unable to be changed without exception.
- What is immutable in Tamil?
- Immutable in Tamil is நிலையான, மாறும் இயல்பற்ற, மாற்ற முடியாத. See Immutable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is immutable?
- Immutable can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near immutable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: immutable (page history and authors); immutable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immutable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immutable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immutable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); immutable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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