What part of speech is ironclad?

Ironclad can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. ironclad is a noun, singular of ironclads.
  • 2. ironclad is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more ironclad
    most ironclad
  • Positive: ironclad 
  • Comparative: more ironclad
  • Superlative: most ironclad

What does ironclad mean?

Definitions

Adjective

ironclad - inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"
ironclad - sheathed in iron plates for protection

Noun

ironclad - a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor

Examples of ironclad

#   Sentence  
1. adj. An ironclad rule.
2. adj. It's hard not to write satire. For who is so tolerant of the injustices of the city, so ironclad, that they can hold back?
3. adj. Tom has an ironclad alibi for the night of Mary's murder.
4. adj. Tom has an ironclad alibi.
5. adj. Fadil had an ironclad alibi.
6. adj. The USS Monitor was the prototype for a class of U.S. Civil War ironclad, turreted warships that significantly altered both naval technology and marine architecture in the nineteenth century.
7. adj. Tom's alibi is ironclad.
Sentence  
adj.
An ironclad rule.
It's hard not to write satire. For who is so tolerant of the injustices of the city, so ironclad, that they can hold back?
Tom has an ironclad alibi for the night of Mary's murder.
Tom has an ironclad alibi.
Fadil had an ironclad alibi.
The USS Monitor was the prototype for a class of U.S. Civil War ironclad, turreted warships that significantly altered both naval technology and marine architecture in the nineteenth century.
Tom's alibi is ironclad.

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