ineffaceable
English edit
Etymology edit
in- + effaceable
Adjective edit
ineffaceable (comparative more ineffaceable, superlative most ineffaceable)
- 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.