Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to reverse: an irreversible momentum toward open revolution.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not reversible; incapable of being reversed or inverted.
- Not to be recalled or annulled.
Wiktionary
- adj. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
- adj. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
- adj. thermodynamics Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
- adj. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. incapable of being reversed
Etymologies
- ir- + reversible (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Clinton said all that could change if the North Korean government came in from the cold, stopped its provocative behavior and any of its threats towards its neighbors, and take what she called irreversible steps to denuclearize.”
“He was short, though, on specifics for preventing what he called irreversible catastrophe.”
“In his youth, my father had caught a terrible disease: streptococcal arthritis, ending in irreversible lesions in the aortic valves.”
“In the West, the medieval era appeared to be in irreversible decline as early as the thirteenth century.”
“The number of bookstores peaked and is in "irreversible decline," Cader says.”
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“It deprives the public of our rights to be included in irreversible decisions concerning our own land.”
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“The time left to stem the warming trend before it becomes irreversible is short.”
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“The post-1945 Western regime, whose victory over all pre-Reformation or anti-Enlightenment forces appears final and irreversible, is the Whig millennium.”
“This could potentially be a long term irreversible process that pushes humanity into an ever diminishing remnant population over many centuries or millennia.”
Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today
“Smoking marijuana can have long-term irreversible effects on adolescent brains, and is more harmful to teens than previously known.”
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