irreconcilable

/ɪˈrɛkənˌsaɪləbəl/

Other forms: irreconcilably

Your dad wants Mozart in the car and you want Eminem? That's an irreconcilable difference right there — two tastes or ideas or preferences so different from each other there can be no compatibility or middle ground. Diplomacy can't help, only headphones.

Where would divorce lawyers be without this lovely word irreconcilable? Their clients don't just have differences with their spouses, they have "irreconcilable differences" — in other words, demands or points of view so distant from each other they can never be bought together. Bye-bye marriage, hello legal fees.

Definitions of irreconcilable

1. adjective

   impossible to reconcile
   “irreconcilable differences”

   synonyms: unreconcilable

   hostile

   impossible to bring into friendly accord

   inconsistent

   not capable of being made consistent or harmonious

   antonyms:

   reconcilable

   capable of being reconciled

   harmonizable

   capable of being made harmonious or consistent

   resolvable

   capable of being settled or resolved