Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.
[T]he fact that the peccant doctor [Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet] continued in the Queen's service made the Hastings family irreconcilable and produced an unpleasant impression of unrepentant error upon the public mind.
Incompatible, discrepant, contradictory.
I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.
Something that cannot be reconciled.
A Confederate who moved to another country following the American Civil War, rather than live in a reunited United States.
Borrowed from Middle French irréconciliable, from Late Latin irreconciliābilis, from in- (“not”) + reconciliō (“I reconcile”) + -ābilis (“-able”). By surface analysis, ir- + reconcilable.
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