Irrevocable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irrevocable \Ir*rev"o*ca*ble\, a. [L. irrevocabilis: cf. F.
     irr['e]vocable. See {In-} not, and {Revoke}, and cf.
     {Irrevocable}.]
     Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable;
     irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or
     decree; irrevocable fate.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Firm and irrevocable is my doom.         --Shak.
     -- {Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Ir*rev"o*ca*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irrevocable
       adj : impossible to retract or revoke; "firm and irrevocable is my
             doom"- Shakespeare [syn: {irrevokable}] [ant: {revocable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "irrevocable":
     absolute, beyond recall, beyond remedy, binding, certain,
     changeless, compulsory, conclusive, constant, cureless, decisive,
     decretory, dictated, enduring, entailed, established, everlasting,
     fated, fateful, final, fixed, gone, hard-and-fast, immedicable,
     immutable, imperative, imposed, incommutable, inconvertible,
     incorrigible, incurable, indefeasible, ineluctable, inert,
     inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible,
     inoperable, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable,
     irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable,
     irremediable, irreparable, irresistible, irretrievable,
     irreversible, lasting, lost, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary,
     noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, obligatory, past hope,
     past praying for, peremptory, permanent, prescript, prescriptive,
     relentless, remediless, required, resistless, reverseless, ruined,
     settled, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, terminal, ultimate,
     unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unavoidable, unchangeable,
     unchanged, unchanging, uncontrollable, undeflectable, undeviating,
     undone, unmitigable, unmodifiable, unpreventable, unrelievable,
     unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsalvable, unsalvageable,
     unstoppable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying, unyielding,
     without appeal