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Irreversible vs Incontrovertible - What's the difference?

irreversible | incontrovertible | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between irreversible and incontrovertible

is that irreversible is incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward while incontrovertible is not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

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  • Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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.
  • incontrovertible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
  • Her statement that Hitler was evil is incontrovertible .

    Synonyms

    * indisputable, undeniable, unquestionable

    Antonyms

    * controvertible

    Derived terms

    * incontrovertibility * incontrovertibly