reconcilable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonreconcilability noun
- nonreconcilable adjective
- nonreconcilableness noun
- nonreconcilably adverb
- reconcilability noun
- reconcilableness noun
- reconcilably adverb
- unreconcilable adjective
- unreconcilableness noun
- unreconcilably adverb
Etymology
Origin of reconcilable
Example Sentences
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Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018
If the issue isn’t reconcilable, or if talking to your colleague directly didn’t work, tap the chain of command—but be sure to have a solution in mind.
From Time • Jun. 20, 2017
Interpretation is a swan-dive into an ocean of possibilities, all of them entrancingly plausible, and none quite reconcilable.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2017
Still, at the same meeting, there were hints that some members of staff have attitudes that might not be reconcilable to life within a secular state primary school.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2014
“Now as to the time at which Durnford returned to ‘The Silver Fleece,’ there is a conflict of testimony, but a perfectly reconcilable one.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
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