Irrevocable vs Mutable - What's the difference?
irrevocable | mutable |
Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
* , As You Like It act 1, sc. 3:
* 1848 , , Dombey and Son , ch. 61:
* 2005 April 28, , "
Changeable; inclined to mutate.
(programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
As an adverb irrevocable
is irrevocable (not able to be revoked).As an adjective mutable is
changeable; inclined to mutate.irrevocable
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.