irreconcilable
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See also: Irreconcilable
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French irréconciliable, from Late Latin irreconciliābilis, from in- (“not”) + reconciliō (“I reconcile”) + -ābilis (“-able”).
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Adjective[edit]
irreconcilable (comparative more irreconcilable, superlative most irreconcilable)
- Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.
- 1921, Lytton Strachey, “Lord Melbourne”, in Queen Victoria, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, section VI, page 82:
- [T]he fact that the peccant doctor [Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet] continued in the Queen's service made the Hastings family irreconcilable and produced an unpleasant impression of unrepentant error upon the public mind.
- Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXVI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.
Synonyms[edit]
- (unable to be reconciled): hostile, hateful, antagonistic
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Translations[edit]
unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising
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Noun[edit]
irreconcilable (plural irreconcilables)
- Something that cannot be reconciled.