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Inexorable vs Irreversible - What's the difference?

inexorable | irreversible |

As adjectives the difference between inexorable and irreversible

is that inexorable is unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting while irreversible is incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.

inexorable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting.
  • Impossible to stop or prevent; inevitable.
  • Adamant; severe.

    • Antonyms

    * exorable

    Derived terms

    * inexorability * inexorableness * inexorably

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    irreversible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
  • Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
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  • (label) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.