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Irrevocable vs Mutable - What's the difference?

irrevocable | mutable |

As an adverb irrevocable

is irrevocable (not able to be revoked).

As an adjective mutable is

changeable; inclined to mutate.

irrevocable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
  • * , As You Like It act 1, sc. 3:
  • Firm and irrevocable is my doom
    Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
  • * 1848 , , Dombey and Son , ch. 61:
  • 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.
  • * 2005 April 28, , " 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.

    mutable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Changeable; inclined to mutate.
  • (programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.
  • Antonyms

    * immutable

    See also

    * alterable ----