ironclad
15
7.4
- adjective
- /ˈaɪərnˌklæd/
:
blindado
- You had an ironclad contract with Shields Productions.
You need a really ironclad pre sleep ritual.
- You need a really ironclad pre sleep ritual.
- Very clear legal agreements and ironclad contracts.
- It's anarchy within, within the constraints, within the absolute ironclad restraints.
- So you create a culture in which the only ironclad rule is we all support each other in our uniqueness, and that's new.
- It's a sound, sound argument based on the ironclad legal principle known as he who smelt it, dealt it.
Examples
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An ironclad FBI rule: no one enters a hostage situation, ever, for no reason, period.
Fiction book (1995) -
There is an ironclad agreement... between federal, state and local governments and the Airports Commission.
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There is at the present time no ironclad way to know that.
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But we have one ironclad rule.
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Use the Individual Development Plan for information, not as an ironclad rule.
Blog text (26) -
But that release you signed is ironclad.
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It's not an ironclad rule, but it tends to be a pretty effective one.
Blog text (34) -
We are, but we want a contract agreement that's ironclad.
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He's got an ironclad alibi.
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The team established an ironclad agreement to ensure that all conditions were met without exception.
Synonyms
21
5.8
Hard to prove wrong
12
5.7
Very clear rules or limits that do not allow change
11
8.0
So strong that no one can attack, defeat, or prove it wrong
8
4.8
Very strong belief or feeling that cannot be changed
6
4.5
A fixed instruction you cannot change or adapt
4
4.4
Very firm and cannot be changed or weakened
4
5.7
Fixed and not able to be changed
1
5.1
So strong and complete that people cannot prove it wrong
1
8.8
Cannot be ended or broken, for example a marriage
1
7.0
Not willing to change your mind even under pressure
Fixed and not open to change, often about rules or positions
Others cannot attack or harm it
Very strict about rules or ways and unlikely to change
Antonyms
Compounds
How Binding
25
2.7
15
7.4
- Formal
28
1.0
155
3.4
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ironclad as an adjective comes from the image of something 'covered in iron' and therefore very hard to break or change. The parts iron and clad mean 'iron' and 'covered', so when we call a rule ironclad we mean it is fixed and cannot be easily changed.