unreconcilable

adj

Etymology

From un- + reconcilable.

  1. borrowed from reconciliō
  2. suffixed as reconcilable — “reconcile + able
  3. prefixed as unreconcilable — “un + reconcilable

Definitions

  1. Irreconcilable.

    • But yet let me lament […] that our stars, / Unreconcilable, should divide / Our equalness to this.
    • Kant's embrace of an unreconcilable contradiction at the foundation of human experience is not a turn to irrationalism; indeed, it is hard to imagine a more rigorous and rational thinker than Kant.
  2. A person or thing that cannot be reconciled.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unreconcilable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA