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irreconcilable

[ ih-rek-uhn-sahy-luh-buhl, ih-rek-uhn-sahy- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible:
irreconcilable differences.
incapable of being made to acquiesce or compromise; implacably opposed:
irreconcilable enemies.

irreconcilable

/ ɪˌrɛkənˈsaɪ-; ɪˈrɛkənˌsaɪləbəl /

a person or thing that is implacably hostile or uncompromisingly opposed
usually plural one of various principles, ideas, etc, that are incapable of being brought into agreement

First recorded in 1590–1600; ir- ² + reconcilable

Many argue that Beijing and Moscow have differing interests, and indeed, some of them are irreconcilable.

Politics in my old Kentucky home has, for centuries, been awash in irreconcilable contradictions.

Usher filed for divorce just three months later, citing irreconcilable differences.

Taylor filed for divorce on July 15, citing irreconcilable differences.

Taylor Armstrong, 40, had filed for divorce in July, citing irreconcilable differences.

Far from us be all spirit of persecution which would only serve to render them irreconcilable.

Every religion is but a system imagined for the purpose of reconciling irreconcilable ideas.

Some of these excellences are indeed irreconcilable and exclude each other; most of them can only be combined by a compromise.

You remember how in his letters to Fontana he abuses Camille Pleyel in a manner irreconcilable with genuine love and esteem.

The sentiments which your father has expressed towards me, are of a nature irreconcilable with hostile purposes.

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