irrevocably

[ ih-rev-uh-kuh-blee ]

adverb

1. in a way that can never be reversed, undone, or canceled; permanently:

   The huge manuscript is unbound looseleaf and there are no page numbers, so if you drop it the whole thing is irrevocably scrambled.

Other Words From

• non·ir·rev·o·cab·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of irrevocably¹

irrevocab(le) ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Freedom’s end—the ultimate oppression—is when government takes a life, putting all its power into irrevocably taking away someone else’s.

From The Daily Beast

Rather than directly acting on genes—irrevocably dicing away or swapping genetic letters—the new CRISPR variant targets the biological machinery that naturally turns genes on or off.

From Singularity Hub 

Here are the ways that It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot irrevocably changed the hip-hop landscape.

From Time

The way the sector makes money is going to irrevocably change over the next two years.

From Digiday

At the top of 2020, the coronavirus crisis, an event of seismic proportions, irrevocably changed the worlds of retail, commerce, media and marketing.

From Digiday

Just when the Putins left the Soviet Union, that country began to change drastically and irrevocably.

From The Daily Beast

Despite the one concussion combined, their careers have been irrevocably influenced by injury.

From The Daily Beast

Also, the long running fan favorite , the Ethiopian Immigration, was “irrevocably” canceled… for the fourth time.

From The Daily Beast

That new cloud-computing technology will irrevocably change the community banking system.

From The Daily Beast

If you have to ask whether Star Trek is like Star Wars, you are horribly, irrevocably misguided.

From The Daily Beast

Now that all is irrevocably ended, they a rise naturally out of what has taken place.

From Project Gutenberg

To gain his Dragon Maid,—to know that in this life she was irrevocably his,—that was Tatsu's one conscious thought.

From Project Gutenberg

John just slipped out of my grasp—Zloomph and all—and was gone—completely and irrevocably gone.

From Project Gutenberg

There is no proposition of which it can be asserted that every human mind must eternally and irrevocably believe it.

From Project Gutenberg

All that thou hast loved, to which thou hast given thyself irrevocably, is falling, going to pieces.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• certainly
• completely
• decisively
• definitely
• permanently