different between exhaustive vs irrevocable

English

Etymology

From exhaust +? -ive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z??.st?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z?.st?v/

Adjective

exhaustive (comparative more exhaustive, superlative most exhaustive)

1. Including every possible element

   Synonyms: all-encompassing, thorough

2. Fully comprehensive
3. (now rare) Causing exhaustion; very tiring
   • 1878, John Henry Blunt, The Reformation of the Church of England: A. D. 1514-1547 (page 98)

     Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.

   Synonyms: tiring, weariful

Synonyms

• (including every possible element): see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
• (causing exhaustion): see also Thesaurus:fatiguing

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zos.tiv/
• Homophone: exhaustives

Adjective

exhaustive

1. feminine singular of exhaustif

English

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin irrevocabilis; equivalent to ir- +? revoke +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????v?k?b(?)l/, /????v??k?b(?)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????v?k?b(?)l/, /????vo?k?b(?)l/, /??i?vo?k?b(?)l/

Adjective

irrevocable (not comparable)

1. Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It act 1, scene 3:

     Firm and irrevocable is my doom

     Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, chapter 61:

     On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past.

   • 2005 April 28, Samuel Abt, "Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably," New York Times (retrieved 27 April 2014):

     Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably.

Usage notes

• Pronunciations with antepenultimate stress are common, but sometimes proscribed.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

ir- +? revocable

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /i.r?.vo?ka.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i.r?.bu?ka.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.re.vo?ka.ble/

Adjective

irrevocable (masculine and feminine plural irrevocables)

1. irrevocable

Antonyms

• revocable

Derived terms

• irrevocabilitat
• irrevocablement

Further reading

• “irrevocable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Spanish

Adjective

irrevocable (plural irrevocables)

1. irrevocable