Indelible
[ɪn'delɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn'dɛləbl]
Definition
(adj.) cannot be removed or erased; 'an indelible stain'; 'indelible memories' .
Checker: Raymond--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.
(a.) That can not be annulled; indestructible.
Typist: Rachel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Ineffaceable, ingrained, not to be blotted out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Indestructible, indefeasible, ineffaceable, persistent, irreversible
ANT:Mutable, evanescent, transient, effaceable
Typist: Willard
Definition
adj. that cannot be blotted out or effaced.—ns. Indelibil′ity Indel′ibleness.—adv. Indel′ibly.
Inputed by Enoch
Examples
- But I had not done with it yet; and other memoranda were destined to be set down in characters of tint indelible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At the time Edison was born, in 1847, telegraphy, upon which he was to leave so indelible an imprint, had barely struggled into acceptance by the public. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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