Irreconcilable
adjective
Impossible to reconcile or cause to coexist harmoniously; totally opposed or in conflict.
Their differences are irreconcilable.
Often appears as...
- irreconcilable differences
- irreconcilable conflict
noun
A person who refuses to change their views, or to agree about something.
He is an irreconcilable when it comes to changing his political viewpoints.
Often appears as...
- political irreconcilable
- partisan irreconcilable
Usage tips
Formal
Political
adjective
Impossible to reconcile or cause to coexist harmoniously; totally opposed or in conflict.
Their differences are irreconcilable.
Often appears as...
- irreconcilable differences
- irreconcilable conflict
noun
A person who refuses to change their views, or to agree about something.
He is an irreconcilable when it comes to changing his political viewpoints.
Often appears as...
- political irreconcilable
- partisan irreconcilable
Usage tips
Formal
Political
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Complete Opposition
Use 'irreconcilable' to stress that no compromise or agreement is possible between two sides.
Their views on environmental policy were irreconcilable, leading to constant arguments.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Resolution
'Irreconcilable' implies that a dispute or difference cannot be solved, often used in serious contexts.
The two companies went their separate ways due to irreconcilable visions for the future.
Pro Tip 3/3Relationship Breakdown
Often used to describe the end of relationships where parties can't agree or live together anymore.
They filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason.
Pro Tip 1/3Complete Opposition
Use 'irreconcilable' to stress that no compromise or agreement is possible between two sides.
Their views on environmental policy were irreconcilable, leading to constant arguments.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Resolution
'Irreconcilable' implies that a dispute or difference cannot be solved, often used in serious contexts.
The two companies went their separate ways due to irreconcilable visions for the future.
Pro Tip 3/3Relationship Breakdown
Often used to describe the end of relationships where parties can't agree or live together anymore.
They filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason.
Pro Tip 1/3Complete Opposition
Use 'irreconcilable' to stress that no compromise or agreement is possible between two sides.
Their views on environmental policy were irreconcilable, leading to constant arguments.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Resolution
'Irreconcilable' implies that a dispute or difference cannot be solved, often used in serious contexts.
The two companies went their separate ways due to irreconcilable visions for the future.
Pro Tip 3/3Relationship Breakdown
Often used to describe the end of relationships where parties can't agree or live together anymore.
They filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason.
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Video examples
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man...
or crawl up the chain and behave like a god, it's our choice. Looking back at the sketch, we can see that by changing the position of the man, he can fill the irreconcilable areas of a circle and a square. If geometry is the language the universe is written in, then this sketch seems to say we can exist within all its elements.
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Liu Bolin: The invisible...
I found that any culture has its irreconcilable contradictions. This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR. This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR. I tried to disappear into JR's eye,
Video examples
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man...
or crawl up the chain and behave like a god, it's our choice. Looking back at the sketch, we can see that by changing the position of the man, he can fill the irreconcilable areas of a circle and a square. If geometry is the language the universe is written in, then this sketch seems to say we can exist within all its elements.
Video examples
Liu Bolin: The invisible...
I found that any culture has its irreconcilable contradictions. This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR. This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR. I tried to disappear into JR's eye,
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Katherine Anne Porter
American Journalist
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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Owen Jones
British Journalist
The left's mission isn't simply to grant every citizen the basic means of survival, but comfort and prosperity, too, through collective means. Yet the existence of billionaires is irreconcilable with this emancipatory project.
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Alice Roberts
English Scientist
Looking in detail at human anatomy, I'm always left with two practically irreconcilable thoughts: our bodies are wonderful, intricate masterpieces; and then - they are cobbled-together, rag-bag, sometimes clunking machines.
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Henry Williamson
English Author
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.
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Steve Carell
American Actor
Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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Martha Beck
American Author
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
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Sherlyn Chopra
I shot for 'Kamasutra 3D' for barely 5 days. After which, a series of irreconcilable differences had risen between the makers of the film and myself.
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James G. Stavridis
American Educator
In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
Quote examples
Katherine Anne Porter
American Journalist
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Quote examples
Owen Jones
British Journalist
The left's mission isn't simply to grant every citizen the basic means of survival, but comfort and prosperity, too, through collective means. Yet the existence of billionaires is irreconcilable with this emancipatory project.
Quote examples
Alice Roberts
English Scientist
Looking in detail at human anatomy, I'm always left with two practically irreconcilable thoughts: our bodies are wonderful, intricate masterpieces; and then - they are cobbled-together, rag-bag, sometimes clunking machines.
Quote examples
Henry Williamson
English Author
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.
Quote examples
Steve Carell
American Actor
Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.
Quote examples
Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Quote examples
Martha Beck
American Author
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
Quote examples
Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
Quote examples
Sherlyn Chopra
I shot for 'Kamasutra 3D' for barely 5 days. After which, a series of irreconcilable differences had risen between the makers of the film and myself.
Quote examples
James G. Stavridis
American Educator
In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
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