MEANING
Unchanging and not able to be altered, especially by ordinary effort or circumstance.
Use it for
Use when something is treated as beyond alteration.Give a rule, belief, or boundary an absolute quality.
Words that belong together
- immutable law
- immutable rule
- immutable fact
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The village treated the boundary stones as an immutable fact of the world.
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Usage notes
Immutable is stronger than stable; it implies that change is impossible or outside the relevant power.
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