Inscrutable vs Irrevocable - What's the difference?
inscrutable | irrevocable |
Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.
* 2007 , Tracy Jordan'' (Tracy Morgan), ''30 Rock :
Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
* , As You Like It act 1, sc. 3:
* 1848 , , Dombey and Son , ch. 61:
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As an adjective inscrutable
is difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.As a noun inscrutable
is one who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc that cannot be comprehended.As an adverb irrevocable is
irrevocable (not able to be revoked).inscrutable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
- She called my vanity license plate inscrutable ! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!
Synonyms
* (difficult to comprehend) ineffableDerived terms
* inscrutability * inscrutableness * inscrutablySee also
* inexplorableirrevocable
English
Adjective
(-)- Firm and irrevocable is my doom
- Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
- 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.
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.