irreversible Meaning, Definition & Usage

Ir`re*vers"i*ble adjective

Definitions

1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.

   This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal, so neither is it final and irreversible. Jortin.

   Syn. -- Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.