irreconcilable [ih-rek -uh n-sahy-luh -buh l, ih-rek-uh n-sahy -] adjective incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
incapable of being made to acquiesce or compromise; implacably opposed: irreconcilable enemies.
noun a person or thing that is irreconcilable.
a person who is opposed to agreement or compromise.
Related forms ir·rec·on·cil·a·bil·i·ty , ir·rec·on·cil·a·ble·ness , noun ir·rec·on·cil·a·bly , adverb Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for irreconcilable implacable ,
uncompromising ,
inexorable ,
incompatible ,
incongruous ,
inconsistent ,
clashing ,
discordant ,
discrepant ,
dissonant ,
hard-line ,
inflexible ,
inharmonious ,
intransigent ,
opposed ,
reluctant ,
unfriendly ,
unappeasable Examples from the Web for irreconcilable Contemporary Examples of irreconcilable 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.
Their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam.
Historical Examples of irreconcilable And there are some things which are,' he stopped to sob, 'irreconcilable with that, and wound that—wound it deeply.
There necessarily exists a permanent and irreconcilable conflict of interest.
There is in them an irreconcilable mixture of fury and formalism.
The differences of opinion among them were so great as apparently to be irreconcilable .
We seem to find that the ideal of knowledge is irreconcilable with experience.
British Dictionary definitions for irreconcilable adjective not able to be reconciled; uncompromisingly conflicting; incompatible
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noun 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
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Derived Forms irreconcilability or irreconcilableness , noun irreconcilably , adverb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for irreconcilable adj. 1590s, from French irréconcilable (16c.), from Medieval Latin *irreconcilabilis , from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + reconcilabilis (see reconcile ). Related: Irreconcilably . As a noun from 1748.
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