set in stone

1. 1.

   no longer changeable

   “the agreement is not yet set in stone”

   Synonymscarved in stone

   Similarunchangeable

Questions about set in stone

What does set in stone mean?

set in stone means "no longer changeable".

What is another word for set in stone?

Close synonyms include carved 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 set in stone a common word?

set 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.