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Unshakable

Unshakable \Un*shak"a*ble\, a. Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed.
--Shak. J. S. Mill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unshakable

1610s; see un- (1) "not" + shake (v.) + -able. Of beliefs, etc., from 1670s.

Wiktionary
unshakable

a. 1 That cannot be shaken or moved; unfaltering or unwavering. 2 Having no errors or loopholes; unassailable.

WordNet
unshakable
  1. adj. marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unwavering]

  2. without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument" [syn: ironclad, unassailable, watertight, bulletproof]

Usage examples of "unshakable".

In the next decades his grave, impassive face, topped by the tall-crowned hat, would be painted by four white artists and photographed by many daguerreotypists, so that the deep lines down his cheeks would become familiar across the country, and he would represent the archetypal Indian chief, the man of unshakable integrity.

Prew looked at the great solid bulk of him, utterly unshakable, and grinned, loving him for his unshakability in what in the last month had become an unfounded maelstrom of the whole universe.

He had an unshakable faith in the transforming power of their affections, and one morning as they dressed, preparing to return to Hangtown, he asked her to leave with him.

Sadye brought a hand up to brush a strand of hair from in front of her gray eyes, a gesture that told Aydrian just how much he had rattled the normally unshakable woman.

But as Lilea put it, there was a singlemindedness about her that frightened a lot of her teachers--an unshakable conviction that she and only she knew exactly what the Chronicles meant, exactly what Idair wanted, and exactly what her duty to shri was, and that anyone who had a differing view was misguided at best.

She was a tall and handsome woman, a year older than Winton, with a long, aristocratic face, deep-blue, rather shining eyes, a gentlemanly manner, warm heart, and one of those indescribable, not unmelodious drawls that one connects with an unshakable sense of privilege.

One becomes skilled in means, and by the eighth bhumi one is unshakable.

Accused of conduct inappropriate to a branch ind? His loyalty to the brood mind was unshakable.

And this kind of unshakable stupidity was essential when it came to sending someone to defuse the offworlders at police conferences.

When Sha reached high school age, it was this more than anything else that fostered his unshakable desire to return to Zeon and destroy the ruling Zavi family.

That would also go a long way toward explain­ing the ayatollahs’ unshakable faith in the validity of magic.

That would also go a long way toward explaining the ayatollahs' unshakable faith in the validity of magic.

That was the very point the Determinists and the Rational Absolutists fixed as unshakable.

The Arab colony fleet at the dispersal was profoundly Islamic, and one of the unshakable tenets of Islam is that the Quran can only be written in the Arabic language and the Arabic script.

He had absolutely no idea how much the average bowel movement might weigh, but the principle was logical, unshakable: throw all the ballast overboard that you could.