INDELIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indelible mean? 

• INDELIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INDELIBLE has 1 sense:

1. cannot be removed or erased

  Familiarity information: INDELIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDELIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cannot be removed or erased

Synonyms:

indelible; unerasable

Context example:

indelible memories

Similar:

ineradicable (not able to be destroyed or rooted out)

 Context examples 

Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Was not the very sight of the friend who sat behind you, was not the recollection of what had been, the knowledge of her influence, the indelible, immoveable impression of what persuasion had once done—was it not all against me?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My aunt took so kindly to the notion, that some ready-made clothes, which were purchased for me that afternoon, were marked Trotwood Copperfield, in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger and larger as I advanced, like a great tower in a plain, and throwing its fore-cast shadow even on the incidents of my childish days.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My horror of having committed a thousand offences I had forgotten, and which nothing could ever expiate—my recollection of that indelible look which Agnes had given me—the torturing impossibility of communicating with her, not knowing, Beast that I was, how she came to be in London, or where she stayed—my disgust of the very sight of the room where the revel had been held—my racking head—the smell of smoke, the sight of glasses, the impossibility of going out, or even getting up!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)