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Indomitable vs Irrepressible - What's the difference?

indomitable | irrepressible |

As adjectives the difference between indomitable and irrepressible

is that indomitable is incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished while irrepressible is irrepressible.

indomitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
  • * 1902 , , The Four Feathers , ch. 1:
    • Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
  • * 1910 , , A Shepherd's Life , ch. 7:
    • But he was a youth of indomitable spirit, strong and agile as a wild cat.
  • * 2007 , , " When Betty Got Frank," Time , 31 March:
    • Nobody came on to the movie camera—wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission—like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" . . . . [S]he was indomitable , unstoppable.

    Synonyms

    * impregnable, inexpugnable, insuperable, insurmountable, invincible, never-say-die, unbeatable, unconquerable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unvanquishable

    irrepressible

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Not containable or controllable.
  • * 1858 , , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 15:
    • "...here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter...
  • (of a person) Especially high-spirited, outspoken, or insistent.
  • * 1875 , , The Law and the Lady , ch. 3:
    • The irrepressible landlady gave the freest expression to her feelings.
  • * 1900 , , Lord Jim , ch. 19:
    • Schomberg, . . . an irrepressible retailer of all the scandalous gossip of the place, would, with both elbows on the table, impart an adorned version of the story to any guest.
  • * 1901 , , The Octopus , Book II, Conclusion:
    • "The irrepressible Yank is knocking at the doors of their temples and he will want to sell 'em carpet-sweepers for their harems."
  • * 1963 July 12, " People," Time :
    • It was Paris' irrepressible High Fashion Doyenne Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 80, so-soing this and high-hatting that, while Women's Wear Daily took notes.
  • * 2012 July 24, , " Sherman Hemsley, ‘Jeffersons’ Star, Is Dead at 74," New York Times (retrieved 16 June 2013):
    • High-strung and irrepressible , George Jefferson quickly became one of America’s most popular television characters, a high-energy, combative black man who backed down to no one.