Word of the Day for Tuesday July 26, 2005 indelible \in-DEL-uh-buhl\, adjective: 1. That cannot be removed, erased, or washed away. 2. Making marks that cannot easily be removed or erased. 3. Incapable of being forgotten; memorable. It was part of his image, indelible as the ink stains under the breast pocket. --Mark Childress, [1]Gone for Good In a sense, these years were like a blur of hunger, a time without roots or a sense of stability that made an indelible mark and colored his every move years later. --Marcos Bretón and José Luis Villegas, [2]Away Games It had been an indelible performance, an astonishing display of spiritual determination; he had done nothing less than give a clinic in what set him apart from everyone else in his profession. --David Halberstam, [3]Playing for Keeps Lore would have it that he lost only once before he drew an indelible lesson about gambling and life. --Sally Denton and Roger Morris, [4]The Money and the Power _________________________________________________________ Indelible is from Latin indelebilis, from in-, "not" + delebilis, "that can be obliterated or destroyed," from delere, "to blot out, to efface, to destroy." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345414535/ref=nosim/lexico 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826322328/ref=nosim/lexico 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767904443/ref=nosim/lexico 4. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/037540130X/ref=nosim/lexico Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=indelible