irreconcilable

comparative more irreconcilable · superlative most irreconcilable

1. Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.

   [T]he fact that the peccant doctor [Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet] continued in the Queen's service made the Hastings family irreconcilable and produced an unpleasant impression of unrepentant error upon the public mind.

   1921, Lytton Strachey, “Lord Melbourne”, in Queen Victoria, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, section VI, page 82

   Synonyms: hostile, hateful, antagonistic

2. Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory.

   I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.

   1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXVI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

   1 more example

   According to Marx and Engels, Lenin points out, the state is the result of irreconcilable class antagonisms, but not in the sense that it harmonizes them or arbitrates between them; on the contrary, the state as such has hitherto always been the instrument whereby the possessing classes have coerced the oppressed classes.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 498

plural irreconcilables

1. Something that cannot be reconciled.

plural Irreconcilables

1. USdatedslangA Confederate who moved to another country following the American Civil War, rather than live in a reunited United States.
2. USdatedslangA vociferous opponent of the Treaty of Versailles.