carved in stone

1. 1.

   no longer changeable

   “the agreement is not yet set in stone”

   Synonymsset in stone

   Similarunchangeable

Questions about carved in stone

What does carved in stone mean?

carved in stone means "no longer changeable".

What is another word for carved in stone?

Close synonyms include set in stone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carved in stone a common word?

carved in stone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.