Indelible vs Fixed - What's the difference?
indelible | fixed | Synonyms |
having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
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incapable of being annulled
* Sprat
(fix)
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed
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Chemically stable.
Supplied with what one needs.
(legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
Indelible is a synonym of fixed.
As adjectives the difference between indelible and fixed
is that indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As a verb fixed is
(fix).indelible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
- This stain on my shirt is indelible .
- That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
- During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
- They are endued with indelible power from above.
Synonyms
* unerasableAntonyms
* delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertablefixed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- fixed assets
- I work fixed''' hours for a '''fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- ''He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
- a fixed''' tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been '''fixed