unreconcilableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unreconcilable (comparative more unreconcilable, superlative most unreconcilable)

1. Irreconcilable.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

• irreconcilable

派生語

• unreconcilably

名詞

unreconcilable (複数形 unreconcilables)

1. A person or thing that cannot be reconciled.
   • 2015 July 20, “Hard Realities in Afghanistan”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Rather than the beginning of a new era of calm and prosperity for Afghans, a peace deal with the Taliban will split the movement, divide the reconcilable elements of the insurgency with the unreconcilables who see compromise as capitulation, and provide a small Islamic State faction in the country with the men and support they need to grow.