unchanged

UK/ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒd/US/ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒd/

adjectiveB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,565 of 15,258leans written

Unchanged means exactly as it was before. Nothing has moved.

It is used in reports and forecasts, so interest rates left unchanged and the team is unchanged are both standard, and in sport an unchanged side is news in itself. The word carries approval or complaint depending entirely on whether change was wanted. It goes after the verb more often than before a noun. Its neighbours are unaltered, which is formal, and the same, which is plainer.

Definitions of unchanged

1adjectiveunchangedNot altered in any way.B2
“The village looks unchanged since the photograph was taken.”

Where it comes from

From un- + changed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 4 of A Man Called Ove.

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unchanged in the wild

Some important classes of transformations are defined by an invariant they leave unchanged.
Invariant (mathematics)
The proper orbital elements or proper elements of an orbit are constants of motion of an object in space that remain practically unchanged over an astronomically long timescale.
Proper orbital elements
The inn burnt down in 1718 but was rebuilt and still exists today, remaining unchanged for almost 300 years.
Japan National Route 171
In the Senate, the party balance of the chamber remained unchanged as Republican and Democratic gains cancelled each other out.
1956 United States elections
If there are more variables than tokens then the remaining variables are unchanged.
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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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