IRRECONCILABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irreconcilable mean? 

• IRRECONCILABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IRRECONCILABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to reconcile

  Familiarity information: IRRECONCILABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRECONCILABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to reconcile

Synonyms:

irreconcilable; unreconcilable

Context example:

irreconcilable differences

Similar:

hostile (impossible to bring into friendly accord)

inconsistent (not capable of being made consistent or harmonious)

Antonym:

reconcilable (capable of being reconciled)

 Context examples 

Certain irreconcilable things must be accepted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby—in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Between these two irreconcilable conclusions: the one, that what I felt was general and unavoidable; the other, that it was particular to me, and might have been different: I balanced curiously, with no distinct sense of their opposition to each other.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford's wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the women, in conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate, had not threatened to raise a rebellion unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues, after the manner of their forefathers; such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)