Indelible
adjective
Something that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased.
Her indelible ink left its mark inside the book.
Often appears as...
- indelible mark
- indelible impression
adjective
Having a strong and lasting effect that cannot be forgotten.
The experience made an indelible impression on her mind.
Often appears as...
- indelible memory
- indelible impression
adjective
Something that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased.
Her indelible ink left its mark inside the book.
Often appears as...
- indelible mark
- indelible impression
adjective
Having a strong and lasting effect that cannot be forgotten.
The experience made an indelible impression on her mind.
Often appears as...
- indelible memory
- indelible impression
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Pro Tip 1/3Irremovable Property
Indelible attributes are often associated with durability and reliability, especially in products like pens or markers.
She always uses indelible markers for labeling her camping gear.
Pro Tip 2/3Evidence Preservation
'Indelible' is typically used when describing something that must remain unchanged for legal or historical verification.
The document was stamped with indelible ink, ensuring its authenticity.
Pro Tip 3/3Memory Association
When 'indelible' is used metaphorically, it emphasizes the permanence of an impact or experience in one's memory.
The sight of the comet was an indelible memory she would cherish forever.
Pro Tip 1/3Irremovable Property
Indelible attributes are often associated with durability and reliability, especially in products like pens or markers.
She always uses indelible markers for labeling her camping gear.
Pro Tip 2/3Evidence Preservation
'Indelible' is typically used when describing something that must remain unchanged for legal or historical verification.
The document was stamped with indelible ink, ensuring its authenticity.
Pro Tip 3/3Memory Association
When 'indelible' is used metaphorically, it emphasizes the permanence of an impact or experience in one's memory.
The sight of the comet was an indelible memory she would cherish forever.
Pro Tip 1/3Irremovable Property
Indelible attributes are often associated with durability and reliability, especially in products like pens or markers.
She always uses indelible markers for labeling her camping gear.
Pro Tip 2/3Evidence Preservation
'Indelible' is typically used when describing something that must remain unchanged for legal or historical verification.
The document was stamped with indelible ink, ensuring its authenticity.
Pro Tip 3/3Memory Association
When 'indelible' is used metaphorically, it emphasizes the permanence of an impact or experience in one's memory.
The sight of the comet was an indelible memory she would cherish forever.
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The history of tattoos -...
but what if you want to make indelible what you feel should never be forgotten? And those criminals and outcasts of Japan, where tattooing was eventually outlawed from the mid-19th century to just after World War II, added decoration to their penal tattoos, with designs borrowed from woodblock prints, popular literature
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My $500 house in Detroit...
and she said something I can't forget. "The most radical thing that I ever did was to stay put." I thought buying a house might indelibly tie me to the city while acting as a physical protest to these walls and freeways. Because grants and loans weren't available to everyone,
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Surviving a nuclear...
launch even though the first country had not actually launched anything during this chapter one there was a high level of public awareness of out the potential of nuclear catastrophe and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that in fact
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Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
Yes. And she said that there was this indelible memory she had of your casting process, where without discussing it with any of the executives, you got people coming in to read for your scripts, and every one of them was the full range of humanity,
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Sir David Attenborough...
i have never seen such ravishingly beautiful film of them i mean they're like the finest spun venetian glass it's just just extraordinary and it makes an indelible impression they discovered that in french guiana the conditions for
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Building a city for the...
slavery and oppression it survives through our voice and through our hearing our voice and hearing carries us through times of great powerlessness these stories give an indelible 'ti to our experiences this universal language
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We don't "move on" from...
It's just that he's indelible, and so he is present for me. Here, he's present for me in the work that I do, in the child that we had together, in these three other children I'm raising,
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Earthrise: The Story of...
now the question that we always receive what was the most indelible of you what you'd bring back well what do you remember after this flight and I must
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D-L Stewart: Scenes from...
women merely playing at being men because you can't get a real man. Forever put in our place, we are indelibly marked as "woman."
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Windows of the Soul: My...
friendships and indelible memories I tend to be soft-spoken I don't know whether that helps me not sometimes
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The history of tattoos -...
but what if you want to make indelible what you feel should never be forgotten? And those criminals and outcasts of Japan, where tattooing was eventually outlawed from the mid-19th century to just after World War II, added decoration to their penal tattoos, with designs borrowed from woodblock prints, popular literature
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My $500 house in Detroit...
and she said something I can't forget. "The most radical thing that I ever did was to stay put." I thought buying a house might indelibly tie me to the city while acting as a physical protest to these walls and freeways. Because grants and loans weren't available to everyone,
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Surviving a nuclear...
launch even though the first country had not actually launched anything during this chapter one there was a high level of public awareness of out the potential of nuclear catastrophe and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that in fact
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Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
Yes. And she said that there was this indelible memory she had of your casting process, where without discussing it with any of the executives, you got people coming in to read for your scripts, and every one of them was the full range of humanity,
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Sir David Attenborough...
i have never seen such ravishingly beautiful film of them i mean they're like the finest spun venetian glass it's just just extraordinary and it makes an indelible impression they discovered that in french guiana the conditions for
Video examples
Building a city for the...
slavery and oppression it survives through our voice and through our hearing our voice and hearing carries us through times of great powerlessness these stories give an indelible 'ti to our experiences this universal language
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We don't "move on" from...
It's just that he's indelible, and so he is present for me. Here, he's present for me in the work that I do, in the child that we had together, in these three other children I'm raising,
Video examples
Earthrise: The Story of...
now the question that we always receive what was the most indelible of you what you'd bring back well what do you remember after this flight and I must
Video examples
D-L Stewart: Scenes from...
women merely playing at being men because you can't get a real man. Forever put in our place, we are indelibly marked as "woman."
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Windows of the Soul: My...
friendships and indelible memories I tend to be soft-spoken I don't know whether that helps me not sometimes
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Dale Archer
American Psychologist
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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Alexandra Fuller
English Author
I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.
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Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Frankie Valli
American Musician
When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible. A movie is through a microscope.
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Alex Lifeson
Canadian Musician
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
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Mira Sorvino
American Actress
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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Takashi Miike
Japanese Director
More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.
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Edin Dzeko
Bosniak Athlete
I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Paul Simon
American Musician
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Dale Archer
American Psychologist
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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Alexandra Fuller
English Author
I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.
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Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Quote examples
Frankie Valli
American Musician
When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible. A movie is through a microscope.
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Alex Lifeson
Canadian Musician
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
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Mira Sorvino
American Actress
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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Takashi Miike
Japanese Director
More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.
Quote examples
Edin Dzeko
Bosniak Athlete
I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.
Quote examples
Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Paul Simon
American Musician
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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