Vocabulary Builder — Essay & Answer Writing
Irreconcilable
adjective
/ ir-ek-uh-SY-luh-buhl /
Medium
Meaning
Incapable of being brought into agreement or harmony; fundamentally incompatible
Origin / Etymology
From Latin irreconciliabilis, from in- ('not') + reconciliare ('to reconcile')
Synonyms
Incompatible
Unresolvable
Antithetical
Antonyms
Compatible
Reconcilable
Harmonious
Example Sentence
"Classical Indian political thought developed within a hierarchical social order whose assumptions about status and birth are irreconcilable with constitutional equality, requiring conscious selectivity in drawing on its ethical vocabulary today."
🎯 UPSC Usage
Use in GS4 ethics and GS1 history answers to flag a genuine tension between two frameworks that cannot both be fully honoured, e.g., 'the hierarchy embedded in the classical text is irreconcilable with Article 14.'
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