unalterable
/ənˈɔltɚəbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "... 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."
- "For instance, we’d need to make one of the following assumptions: (1) that the system will be programmed with an unalterable goal preservation meta-goal, (2) that the training process would select for such a meta-goal, or (3) that the adoption of the meta-goal itself is instrumentally convergent."
Etymology
Etymology tree English un- English alter Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English alterable English unalterable From un- + alterable.
Inflected Forms
more unalterable (comparative)
most unalterable (superlative)