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Unreconcilable vs Irreconcilable - What's the difference?

unreconcilable | irreconcilable |

As adjectives the difference between unreconcilable and irreconcilable

is that unreconcilable is irreconcilable while irreconcilable is unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.

As a noun irreconcilable is

something that cannot be reconciled.

unreconcilable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Irreconcilable.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
    • But yet let me lament that our stars, / Unreconcilable , should divide / Our equalness to this.
  • * 2004 , John Edward Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (page 154)
    • Kant's embrace of an unreconcilable contradiction at the foundation of human experience is not a turn to irrationalism; indeed, it is hard to imagine a more rigorous and rational thinker than Kant.

    Usage notes

    * Unreconcilable'' occurs with about 2% of the frequency of ''irreconcilable in both COCA and BNC.

    Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * unreconcilably

    irreconcilable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.
  • Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.

    Derived terms

    * irreconcilableness * irreconcilability

    Related terms

    * irreconciliation

    Synonyms

    * (unable to be reconciled) hostile, hateful, antagonistic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be reconciled.