indelible

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈdɛləbl/

adjective

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Examples

Mr. Brown's unique style of teaching left an indelible mark on generations of students.
The Alpine landscape left an indelible impression on me.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.
Incapable of being annulled.

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The brow was smooth and fair; no deep thought, born of deep feeling, had grown there—those indelible lines which stamp even youth with age.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 235
During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian
An indelible image from the Great Depression features a well-dressed family seated with their dog in a comfy car, smiling down from an oversize billboard on weary souls standing in line at a relief agency.
2020 April 16, Patricia Cohen, “Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis”, in New York Times

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From Latin indēlēbilis (“indestructible”). By surface analysis, in- + delible.