irreconciliável
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- irreconciliavel (pre-standardization spelling)
Etymology
From ir- + reconciliável.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /i.ʁe.kõ.si.liˈa.vew/ [i.he.kõ.si.lɪˈa.veʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /i.ʁe.kõ.siˈlja.vew/ [i.he.kõ.siˈlja.veʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /i.ʁe.kõ.si.liˈa.vew/ [i.χe.kõ.si.lɪˈa.veʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /i.ʁe.kõ.siˈlja.vew/ [i.χe.kõ.siˈlja.veʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /i.ʁɨ.kõ.siˈlja.vɛl/ [i.ʁɨ.kõ.siˈlja.vɛɫ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /i.ʁɨ.kõ.siˈlja.bɛl/ [i.ʁɨ.kõ.siˈlja.βɛɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -avɛl, (Brazil) -avew
- Hyphenation: ir‧re‧con‧ci‧li‧á‧vel
Adjective
irreconciliável m or f (plural irreconciliáveis)
- irreconcilable (incompatible; contradictory)
- Antonym: reconciliável
- 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Lincoln e Grant”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies][1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 282:
- A democracia não está, pois, destinada a morrer como as outras fórmas sociaes que a precederam, e que não foram senão a lenta preparação do seu triumpho, comquanto pareçam as suas inimigas irreconciliaveis.
- Democracy is not, therefore, destined to die like the other forms of society that preceded it, and that were naught but the slow preparation for its triumph, though they seem like its irreconcilable enemies.