1. impossible to take away or give up; that cannot be transferred to another
Usage: formal; legal

Examples

• The Declaration of Independence speaks of unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• Freedom of thought is considered an unalienable human right.
• The constitution protects certain unalienable privileges of citizenship.
• These fundamental freedoms are unalienable and cannot be surrendered.
• The court ruled that the defendant’s unalienable rights had been violated.
• Natural law philosophers argued that humans possess unalienable dignity.