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Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. Bp. Reynolds.

The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.

Ineffectual; impracticable. [R.] Bp. Hall.

So as not to be eradicable.

Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.

Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable. [Archaic] "Inexpiable hate." Milton. They are at inexpiable war with all establishments. Burke.

Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

The quality or state of being inexplicable. H. Spencer.

In an inexplicable manner.

Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.

In an inextricable manner.

Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.

The quality of being inexplicable or insolvable.

Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands insolvable." Pope.

Not reconcilable; implacable; incompatible; inconsistent; disagreeing; as, irreconcilable enemies, statements. -- Ir*rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv.

Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case. -- Ir*rel"a*vant*ly, adv.

The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.

Irrevocable. [R.]