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irrevocable

[ ih-rev-uh-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable:

    an irrevocable decree.



irrevocable

/ ɪˈrɛvəkəbəl /

adjective

  1. not able to be revoked, changed, or undone; unalterable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • irˈrevocably, adverb
  • irˌrevocaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From

  • ir·rev·o·ca·bil·i·ty [ih-rev-, uh, -k, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], ir·rev·o·ca·ble·ness noun
  • ir·rev·o·ca·bly adverb
  • non·ir·rev·o·ca·bil·i·ty noun
  • non·ir·rev·o·ca·ble adjective
  • non·ir·rev·o·ca·ble·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of irrevocable1

First recorded in 1350–1400; a Middle English word from the Latin word irrevocābilis; ir- 2, revocable
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Example Sentences

Releasing that 139 gigatons of irrecoverable carbon could have irrevocable consequences.

He’s at the sharp end of irrevocable disruption to online advertising and yet is rarely thrown when pressed on the future of digital advertising.

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It is also crucially important to hold the previous administration — and especially those within it who crafted and implemented these harmful policies that have done irrevocable damage to our country’s reputation around the world — accountable.

There is something irrevocable-feeling about couples tying the knot on the steps of the county courthouse.

She filed for divorce in August 2009 because of an “irrevocable breakdown.”

She is right that, for some, the stain of humiliation can indeed be irrevocable.

First: we are not committed to a life sentence—nothing is really irrevocable, not even marriage (though I used to think so).

It is different because it ends a life, and for that reason it is irrevocable.

Principal or agent, my decision, Doctor, is irrevocable—I refuse to serve your accursed ends further.

It seemed to the poor child as if Mrs Mason's words were irrevocable, and, that being so, she was shut out from every house.

Thyrsis would face the blunder they had made—it might have been avoided so easily, and now it was irrevocable!

If he were to mail it, it would be irrevocable; and it would probably mean that he would lose Corydon.

So I was able to shake off that earlier fear of some final and irrevocable destruction truncating all my schemes.

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