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irreconciliable

irreconciliable is the alternative form of irreconcilable.

Meaning of irreconcilable

Adjective

irreconcilable (comparative more irreconcilable, superlative most irreconcilable)

  1. Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.
    • [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.1921, Lytton Strachey, “Lord Melbourne”, in Queen Victoria, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, section VI, page 82
  2. Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory.
    • I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXVI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

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Forms of irreconciliable

comparativemore irreconciliable
superlativemost irreconciliable

Words formed from irreconciliable

Questions about irreconciliable

What is irreconciliable the alternative form of?
Irreconciliable is the alternative form of irreconcilable.

Words near irreconciliable in the dictionary

  1. irreconcileable
  2. irreconciled
  3. irreconcilement
  4. irreconcilements
  5. irreconciles
  6. irreconciliable
  7. irreconciliableness
  8. irreconciliation
  9. irreconciling
  10. irrecondite
  11. irrecordable

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