irreconcilable

See also: Irreconcilable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French irréconciliable, from Late Latin irreconciliābilis, from in- (“not”) + reconciliō (“I reconcile”) + -ābilis (“-able”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

irreconcilable (comparative more irreconcilable, superlative most irreconcilable)

1. 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.

2. 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

• (unable to be reconciled): hostile, hateful, antagonistic

Derived terms

• irreconcilable differences
• irreconcilableness
• irreconcilability

Related terms

• irreconciliation

Translations

unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising

• Belarusian: непрыміры́мы (njeprymirýmy)
• Bulgarian: несъвместим (bg) (nesǎvmestim), непримирим (bg) (neprimirim)
• Catalan: irreconciliable
• Danish: uforenelig
• Dutch: onverzoenlijk (nl), irreconciliabel, onverenigbaar (nl)
• Finnish: leppymätön (fi), taipumaton (fi), tinkimätön (fi)
• French: irréconciliable (fr)
• German: unversöhnlich (de), unvereinbar (de), unverträglich
• Hungarian: kibékíthetetlen (hu), összeegyeztethetetlen (hu)
• Italian: irreconciliabile
• Japanese: 和解できない (ja) (wakai dekinai), 憎い (ja) (nikui), 敵対する (ja) (tekitai suru)
• Latin: dissociābilis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uforenelig (no), uforenlig, uforsonlig (no)

• Portuguese: irreconciliável m
• Romanian: ireconciliabil (ro) m
• Russian: непримири́мый (ru) (neprimirímyj)
• Spanish: irreconciliable
• Ukrainian: непримири́мий (neprymyrýmyj), непримире́нний (neprymyrénnyj)

Noun

irreconcilable (plural irreconcilables)

1. Something that cannot be reconciled.