| a. | 1. | Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; |
| Adj. | 1. | inalienable - incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" Synonyms: unalienable Antonyms: alienable - transferable to another owner |
| 2. | inalienable - not subject to forfeiture; "an unforfeitable right" Synonyms: unforfeitable |
INALIENABLE. This word is applied to those things, the property of which cannot be lawfully transferred from one person to another. Public highways and rivers are of this kind; there are also many rights which are inalienable, as the rights of liberty, or of speech.
bound up in, bound up with, deep-seated, esoteric, immanent, impartible, implanted, implicit, incommunicable, indefeasible, indissoluble, indivisible, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, noncommunicable, noncontagious, noninfectious, private, resident, secret, subjective, unalienable, unchallengeable, undividable, unimpartable, unquestionable