INEFFACEABLE Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

ineffaceable

adjective

Definition of ineffaceable

as in indelible

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Recent Examples of ineffaceable The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017

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Adjective

To Hitchcock, the indelible feature of Roosevelt’s Presidency was his desire to protect democratic norms and processes amid crises, even as critics accused him of being a power-mad dictator or a Communist sympathizer.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
The backlash notwithstanding, the Creole language is an indelible part of the Dominican Republic, and has been maintained in the country by migrants for hundreds of years.

— Kendall Medford, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of indelible

Adjective

Its residents were subject not just to innumerable petty restrictions, but to an ineradicable, if often variable, hostility.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
The contradictions of their closeness aren’t papered over; the unease is allowed to linger, inflamed and ineradicable.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

Definition of ineradicable

Adjective

Novelist and screenwriter Anne Rice led the charge against Cruise’s casting as Lestat de Lioncourt, a French theater actor in the 1700s who’d already become an immortal vampire by the time he’s introduced.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
Significant church figures like Thomas Aquinas and the philosopher René Descartes have argued that animals don’t have an immortal soul.

— Casper ter Kuile, Vox, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of immortal

Adjective

The company also wants a permanent injunction to prevent Five Below from selling products that resemble Crocs.

— Erin McCarthy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
As a reminder, DACA was created in 2012 by the Obama administration, providing temporary protection from deportation, but does not grant lawful immigration status, lawful permanent residency or a pathway to citizenship.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of permanent

Adjective

Instead of clarity and stability, the future of Russian politics will reflect the consequences of the seemingly deathless regime that Putin has built.

— Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
There is the deathless debate around the compatibility — or otherwise — of winning and entertaining.

— The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026

Definition of deathless

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