irrebuttable.

1. Not permitted to be displaced by contrary evidence under the relevant legal rule.

2. Not open to successful rebuttal by counterargument or contrary evidence on the relevant grounds.

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Words that belong together

• irrebuttable presumption
• irrebuttable legal rule

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The irrebuttable presumption operated as a legal rule rather than a finding that no contrary facts could exist.

The court examined whether an irrebuttable rule was consistent with the governing legal requirements.

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Ordinarily non-gradable for the stated logical or evidential status; use degree only where the context genuinely permits it. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evidence assessment, qualification, argument critique, assumption analysis. Disciplines: argumentation, logic, research interpretation, formal writing. Commonness: uncommon.