ineffaceable

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ effaceable.

Adjective

ineffaceable (comparative more ineffaceable, superlative most ineffaceable)

1. Incapable of being effaced.

   Synonym: indelible

   • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart., page 233:

     Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     […] I am sure of one thing—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They crisscross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.

   • 1953 November, H. M. Madgwick, “A Last Journey on the Chichester-Midhurst Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 775:

     Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy.

Translations

Incapable of being effaced.

• Bulgarian: неизличим (bg) (neizličim)