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irreversible

/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜː.sə.bəl/US/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɝ.sə.bəl/

irreversible adjective: incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.

Adjective

irreversible (not comparable)

  1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
    • an irreversible engine
  2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
    • an irreversible sentence or decree
    • Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 25 May 2024
  3. Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

irreversible meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

irreversible in Tamil

மீளாத, திருப்பவியலா, மாற்றமுடியா, மீளா, ஈரமாக்கு, பாய்ச்சு

irreversible in Bengali

অপরিবর্তনীয়

irreversible in Telugu

తిరుగులేనిది, తిరగరానిది

irreversible in Malayalam

unrepairable, irreparable, beyond repair
പഴയതുപോലെയാക്കാനാകാത്ത, പിൻവലിക്കാനോ റദ്ദു ചെയ്യാനോ അവാത്ത, പിന്നോട്ടാക്കാനാവാത്ത, നന്നാക്കാനാകാത്ത, ക്ഷേത്രിയ, അപരിഹാര്യമായ
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irreversible in Tagalog
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Examples of irreversible in a sentence

  • Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were irreversible.
  • Memorized information binds reversible microprocess within impulse with irreversible information macroprocess.
  • The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.

All 28 example sentences with irreversible

Origin of irreversible

From ir- + reversible.

Words formed from irreversible

Questions about irreversible

What does irreversible mean?
Irreversible means incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
What is irreversible in Tamil?
Irreversible in Tamil is மீளாத, திருப்பவியலா, மாற்றமுடியா. See Irreversible meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is irreversible?
Irreversible is an adjective.
How do you pronounce irreversible?
Irreversible is pronounced /ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜː.sə.bəl/ (UK).

Words near irreversible in the dictionary

  1. irreverently
  2. irreversability
  3. irreversable
  4. irreversibilities
  5. irreversibility
  6. irreversible
  7. irreversibleness
  8. irreversibly
  9. irreviewable
  10. irrevisability
  11. irrevisable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: irreversible (page history and authors); irreversible (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Irreversible (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); irreversible (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); irreversible (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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