Irrevocable
adjective
Unable to be cancelled or undone.
He made an irrevocable decision to quit his job.
Often appears as...
- irrevocable decision
- irrevocable action
adjective
Legally unable to be cancelled.
An irrevocable trust cannot be modified or terminated without the beneficiary's permission.
Often appears as...
- irrevocable trust
- irrevocable commitment
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Formal
Technical
adjective
Unable to be cancelled or undone.
He made an irrevocable decision to quit his job.
Often appears as...
- irrevocable decision
- irrevocable action
adjective
Legally unable to be cancelled.
An irrevocable trust cannot be modified or terminated without the beneficiary's permission.
Often appears as...
- irrevocable trust
- irrevocable commitment
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Final Decisions
‘Irrevocable’ highlights the permanency of a choice, suggesting it's important to be sure before deciding.
The judge issued an irrevocable ruling that ended the case.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Consequences
‘Irrevocable’ implies that actions have serious, lasting impacts that can't be reversed.
Selling the family heirloom was an irrevocable act.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
‘Irrevocable’ can convey a sense of loss or regret for actions that cannot be taken back.
Her irrevocable goodbye was heart-breaking.
Pro Tip 1/3Final Decisions
‘Irrevocable’ highlights the permanency of a choice, suggesting it's important to be sure before deciding.
The judge issued an irrevocable ruling that ended the case.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Consequences
‘Irrevocable’ implies that actions have serious, lasting impacts that can't be reversed.
Selling the family heirloom was an irrevocable act.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
‘Irrevocable’ can convey a sense of loss or regret for actions that cannot be taken back.
Her irrevocable goodbye was heart-breaking.
Pro Tip 1/3Final Decisions
‘Irrevocable’ highlights the permanency of a choice, suggesting it's important to be sure before deciding.
The judge issued an irrevocable ruling that ended the case.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Consequences
‘Irrevocable’ implies that actions have serious, lasting impacts that can't be reversed.
Selling the family heirloom was an irrevocable act.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
‘Irrevocable’ can convey a sense of loss or regret for actions that cannot be taken back.
Her irrevocable goodbye was heart-breaking.
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Video examples
Mapping the Future of...
that it has an authority, a gravity if you will. And when countries build infrastructure like a highway or a railway or an electricity grid something really basic you know, that they share with each other it winds up being something that is almost a irrevocable bond. It's obviously positive sum.
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Kathryn Schulz: Don't...
Or you can just have an incredibly embarrassing day at work. Or you can have your last day at work. And this doesn't even touch on the really profound regrets of a life. Because of course, sometimes we do make decisions that have irrevocable and terrible consequences,
Video examples
Mapping the Future of...
that it has an authority, a gravity if you will. And when countries build infrastructure like a highway or a railway or an electricity grid something really basic you know, that they share with each other it winds up being something that is almost a irrevocable bond. It's obviously positive sum.
Video examples
Kathryn Schulz: Don't...
Or you can just have an incredibly embarrassing day at work. Or you can have your last day at work. And this doesn't even touch on the really profound regrets of a life. Because of course, sometimes we do make decisions that have irrevocable and terrible consequences,
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Quote examples
Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
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John Quincy Adams
American President
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
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Mary Calderone
American Scientist
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
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Tomas Transtromer
Swedish Writer
It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.
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James Gray
American Director
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
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Ernie Fletcher
American Politician
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
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James Earl Jones
American Actor
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.
Quote examples
Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
Quote examples
John Quincy Adams
American President
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
Quote examples
Mary Calderone
American Scientist
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Quote examples
Tomas Transtromer
Swedish Writer
It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.
Quote examples
James Gray
American Director
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
Quote examples
Ernie Fletcher
American Politician
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
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James Earl Jones
American Actor
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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