immutable en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Unable to be changed without exception.
The government has enacted an immutable law.
In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.
2019, Peter Kent, Tyler Bain, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30: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:
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(not-comparable, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.
Constants are immutable.
Antonyms
Deriveds
weakly immutable · strongly immutable · immutably · immutableness
Hypernyms
Relateds
changeless · perennial · indomitable
Synonyms
inalterable · permanent · perma- · unalterable · undeviating · unchangeable · perpetual · immutable · fixed · unchangeable · bateless · invariable · unabateable
Translations (32)
ka გარდაუვალი (unable to be changed without exception) · sv oföränderlig (unable to be changed without exception) · ru непрело́жный (unable to be changed without exception) · tr sabit (unable to be changed without exception) · it immutabile (unable to be changed without exception) · ka დაურღვეველი (unable to be changed without exception) · fr immuable (unable to be changed without exception) · grc ἀμετάθετος (unable to be changed without exception) · fi muuttumaton (unable to be changed without exception) · ro neschimbător (unable to be changed without exception) · bg неотменим (unable to be changed without exception) · gl inmutábel (unable to be changed without exception) · es inmutable (unable to be changed without exception) · ja 不変の (unable to be changed without exception) · gl inmutable (unable to be changed without exception) · bg неизменен (unable to be changed without exception) · de unveränderbar (unable to be changed without exception) · tr değişmez (unable to be changed without exception) · ro imuabil (unable to be changed without exception) · ru постоя́нный (unable to be changed without exception) · ru неизме́нный (unable to be changed without exception) · pdt onve'endalich (unable to be changed without exception) · cs nezměnitelný (unable to be changed without exception) · pl niezmienny (unable to be changed without exception) · ca immutable (unable to be changed without exception) · pt imutável (unable to be changed without exception) · ka უცვლელი (unable to be changed without exception) · enm immutable (unable to be changed without exception) · fa دگرشناپذیر (unable to be changed without exception) · fr immutable (unable to be changed without exception) · nl onveranderlijk (unable to be changed without exception) · de unveränderlich (unable to be changed without exception)