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undelible

undelible is the obsolete form of indelible.

Meaning of indelible

Adjective

indelible (comparative more indelible, superlative most indelible)

  1. Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.
    • This ink spot on the contract is indelible.
    Synonyms:
    unerasable
  2. (figuratively) Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.
    • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  3. Incapable of being annulled.
    • November 7, 1678, Thomas Sprat, a sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergymen in the Church of St Mary-le-Bow
      They are […] endued with indelible power from above.

Forms of undelible

comparativemore undelible
superlativemost undelible

Questions about undelible

What is undelible the obsolete form of?
Undelible is the obsolete form of indelible.

Words near undelible in the dictionary

  1. undeliberated
  2. undeliberately
  3. undeliberateness
  4. undeliberating
  5. undeliberative
  6. undelible
  7. undelicate
  8. undelicious
  9. undelight
  10. undelighted
  11. undelightful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undelible (page history and authors); indelible (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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