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unalterable

unalterable adjective: incapable of being altered, or of changing.

Adjective

unalterable (comparative more unalterable, superlative most unalterable)

  1. Incapable of being altered, or of changing.
    • 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.1874, Thomas Hardy, “Coming Home—A Cry”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 99–100
    • ... 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.c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII
  2. Irreversible, irrevocable.

unalterable meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Sanskrit

unalterable in Urdu

امیٹ, اٹل, نابدلنے والا, ناقابل تغیر, پتھر کی لکیر

unalterable in Kannada

ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಮಾರ್ಪಾಟಾಗದ, ತಿದ್ದಲಾಗದ, ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸಗೊಳ್ಳದ, ಮಾರ‍್ಪಡಿಸಲಾಗದ

unalterable in Sanskrit

unalterable
अक्षर akṣára

Synonyms of unalterable

Antonyms

Forms of unalterable

comparativemore unalterable
superlativemost unalterable

Origin of unalterable

From un- + alterable.

Words formed from unalterable

Questions about unalterable

What does unalterable mean?
Unalterable means incapable of being altered, or of changing.
What is unalterable in Urdu?
Unalterable in Urdu is امیٹ, اٹل, نابدلنے والا. See Unalterable meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unalterable?
Unalterable is an adjective.

Words near unalterable in the dictionary

  1. unalphabetical
  2. unalphabetised
  3. unalphabetized
  4. unalter
  5. unalterability
  6. unalterable
  7. unalterableness
  8. unalterably
  9. unalteration
  10. unaltered
  11. unalteredness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unalterable (page history and authors); unalterable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unalterable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अक्षर (Sanskrit) (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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