set in stone

Speech parts

1. set in stone - Adjective

2. set in stone - Verb

3. set in stone - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

no longer changeable

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

carved in stone written in stone set certain established invariant determined fixed permanent firm rigid enduring irreversible cast iron immutable
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Antonyms

inconstant changing variable fluid varying floating
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Examples

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone. Bill Dana

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches. Eric Kripke

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore. Jodi Picoult

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone. Anthony Hopkins

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete! Guy Finley

Roger: It hasn't really been set in stone either way for the time being it's just Less Than Jake releases but it doesn't mean it won't ever have another band. We'll just have to see where that one leads. Roger Manganelli

Close letter words and terms

set in one's ways set in opposition set in place set in train set in your ways set it on fire