Irrevocable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ir=rev=o=ca=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

Irrevocable, a. [L. irrevocabilis: cf. F. irrévocable. 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."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Irrevocable, adj.
1 unalterable.
2 gone beyond recall.

Derivative

irrevocability n. irrevocably adv.

Etymology

ME f. L irrevocabilis (as IN-(1), REVOKE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Irrevocable

Necessity

N necessity, involuntariness, instinct, blind impulse, inborn proclivity, innate proclivity, native tendency, natural tendency, natural impulse, predetermination, necessity, necessitation, obligation, compulsion, subjection, stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity, fate, what must be, destiny, destination, fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination, preordination, foreordination, lot fortune, fatalism, inevitableness, spell, star, stars, planet, planets, astral influence, sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate, God's will, will of Heaven, wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice, last shift, last resort, dernier ressort, pis aller, necessaries, necessarian, necessitarian, fatalist, automaton, necessary, needful, fated, destined, elect, spellbound compulsory, uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable, avoidless, resistless, involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical, unconscious, unwitting, unthinking, unintentional, impulsive, necessarily, of necessity, of course, ex necessitate rei, needs must, perforce, nolens volens, will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute, faute de mieux, by stress of, if need be, it cannot be helped, there is no help for, there is no helping it, it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way, the die is cast, jacta est alea, che sara sara, it is written, one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed, Fata obstant, diis aliter visum, actum me invito factus, non est meus actus, aujord'hui roi demain rien, quisque suos patimur manes, The moving finger writes and having writ moves on, Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to ca.

Stability

N stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.

Hopelessness

N hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, Job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon, goner, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of Despond, cave of Despair, immedicabile vulnus, hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable, lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate, its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, mene mene tekel upharson.