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单词 unalterable
释义
unalterable
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adj

You take your dress to the tailor to be altered. He tells you he can't alter it. The dress is unalterable. Something unalterable cannot be changed.
Take the prefix un-, meaning "not". Add it to the word alter, meaning "change." Tack on the suffix -able, meaning "possible." The result? Unalterable, "impossible to change." The things you've done in the past are unalterable. The only things you have the power to change are the things you're doing right now or that you will do in the future. How can you alter things that haven't happened yet? Good question. For all we know, they're unalterable too.
WORD FAMILY
unalterable: unalterability, unalterably+/alter: alterable, alteration, alterative, altered, altering, alters/alterable: alterability, inalterable, unalterable/alteration: alterations/altered: unaltered/altering: alterings/inalterable: inalterably
USAGE EXAMPLES
In this uncertain world, there are still a few unalterable facts of political life.
Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016)
Your fixed expenses, such as rent, car payments and cable bills, may seem unalterable.
US News(Sep 15, 2016)
“The simple, unalterable calculus of popular music had been drummed into me by my experience in the 1960s,” wrote Heller in his autobiography.
Los Angeles Times(Sep 06, 2016)
1adj not capable of being changed or altered
unalterable resolve
an unalterable ground rule
Syn|Ant
inalterable
incurable
unalterable in disposition or habits
final, last
not to be altered or undone
alterable
capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic
2adj of a sentence; that cannot be changed
an unalterable death sentence
Syn
incommutable
not subject to alteration or change
3adj remaining the same for indefinitely long times
Syn
changeless
unchangeable
not changeable or subject to change
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