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Immovable vs Irrevocable - What's the difference?

immovable | irrevocable |

As adjectives the difference between immovable and irrevocable

is that immovable is incapable of being physically moved; fixed while irrevocable is unable to be retracted or reversed; final.

As a noun immovable

is that which can not be moved; something which is immovable.

immovable

English

Alternative forms

* immoveable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incapable of being physically moved; fixed.
  • Steadfast in purpose or intention; unalterable, unyielding.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 101:
    • I pleaded with him not to resign, but he was immovable .
  • Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling; impassive.
    • (Dryden)
  • (legal) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed.
    • an immovable estate

    Antonyms

    * movable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which can not be moved; something which is immovable.

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    irrevocable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
  • * , As You Like It act 1, sc. 3:
    • Firm and irrevocable is my doom
    Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
  • * 1848 , , Dombey and Son , ch. 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, , " 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.