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/ˌɪrɪvˈərsəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Irreversible adj.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine; an irreversible process; an irreversible reaction.

Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree. "This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal, so neither is it final and irreversible."

Synonyms: Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.

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Etymology of 'Irreversible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Irreversible" Quotes from Famous Books

... it is idle wandering to right and left; it is not advancing on a straight road. It is not possible to bind ourselves down to a certain defined course, but still it is an enormous, an incalculable advantage for us to have some irreversible standard set up in us by which everything we meet is to be judged. That is the meaning of the prophecy—whether it will ever be fulfilled God only knows—that Christ shall judge the world. All religions have been this. They have said that in the midst of the infinitely possible—infinitely ...

— Mark Rutherford's Deliverance • Mark Rutherford

... his punishment was the greatest; but not so his despair, for his fortitude was as great as his sufferings. His strength of mind was matchless as his strength of body; the vastness of his designs did not surpass the firm, inflexible determination with which he submitted to his irreversible doom, and final loss of all good. His power of action and of suffering was equal. He was the greatest power that was ever overthrown, with the strongest will left to resist or to endure. He was baffled, not confounded. He stood like a ...

— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt

... incessant rational mortification. The Duke of Sussex married Lady Augusta Murray, and that, I should think, might satisfy his daughter, in spite of all the Acts of Parliament afterwards devised to restrict and regulate royal marriages. Mademoiselle d'Este's is merely a perpetual protest against an irreversible social decree, and an incessant, unavailing struggle for the observance and respect conventionally due to a rank which is not hers; and though it appears to me as senseless a cause of trouble as ever human being chose to accept, yet as incessant bitterness and mortification and ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble