different between irresoluble vs irreconcilable

English

Etymology

ir- +? resoluble

Adjective

irresoluble (comparative more irresoluble, superlative most irresoluble)

1. difficult if not impossible to resolve; irresolvable

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin irresol?bilis.

Adjective

irresoluble (plural irresolubles)

1. irresoluble

Further reading

• “irresoluble” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French irréconciliable, from Late Latin irreconcili?bilis, from in- (“not”) + reconcili? (“I reconcile”) + -?bilis (“-able”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

irreconcilable (comparative more irreconcilable, superlative most irreconcilable)

1. Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.
2. Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 26

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

Synonyms

• (unable to be reconciled): hostile, hateful, antagonistic

Derived terms

• irreconcilableness
• irreconcilability

Related terms

• irreconciliation

Translations

Noun

irreconcilable (plural irreconcilables)

1. Something that cannot be reconciled.