irreversibly
/ˌɪɹɪvˈɝsəbli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an irreversible manner.
Example Sentences
- "But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises."
- "We also perform IR-VIS absorbance measurements and find that the results suggest that during irradiation some of the dye molecules form dimers and trimers and that the polymer host is irreversibly damaged by photooxidation and Norrish type I photocleavage."
Etymology
From irreversible + -ly or ir- + reversibly.
Inflected Forms
more irreversibly (comparative)
most irreversibly (superlative)