irrevocable
She wanted to break ties completely and irrevocably with him.
Certain things were now irrevocably part of their daily life.
The country is irrevocably split on one main issue.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not able to be changed
a leopard can't/doesn't change its spotsidiom
be no hard and fast rulesidiom
burn your boats/bridgesidiom
congenital
continuity
deep-seated
incorrigible
incurably
inelastic
inelasticity
inflexible
irreversible
irreversibly
irrevocable
leopard
sb's way or the highwayidiom
unchangeable
uncompromising
uncompromisingly
unredeemable

Examples of irrevocably

irrevocably
According to purist views, the exhibition of objects in museums not only irrevocably destroys original contexts, but creates a new context for an object.
Classical music seemed irrevocably destined to become the culture industry's basket case.
For these men, and others, the invention and use of optical glasses irrevocably separated past and present.
The high culture of serious botany was also irrevocably changed.
Patients begin to realize that their view of the world and of themselves has irrevocably changed as a result of the traumatic event.
A filibuster can never be successfully waged unless the time for adjournment is definitely and irrevocably fixed.
It was ' unfair ' to discriminate against men whose tastes in liquor had been changed ' irrevocably ' through urbanization.
The body is ill at ease, perceiving itself as something irrevocably left behind.
What did irrevocably disappear at this time was the late imperial standardization of content as examinations began to accommodate a diverse set of 'new subjects'.
That was the day when geometrical intuition irrevocably pronounced its last word.
The press itself was fundamentally and irrevocably changed by the revolutionary experience - a fact which governments recognized and responded to.
Here the lovers are irrevocably estranged because one of them is tied through marriage or (more rarely) heartfelt loyalty or affection.
The opposing view held that certain peoples, because of their location and environment, must be irrevocably cast out of the realm of civilisation.
She only felt that there was something irrevocably amiss and lost in her lot.
Finally, it shows how knowledge could be irrevocably lost as a consequence of that social choice.
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