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[syn: unrecoverable, irrecoverable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Irrecoverable \Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble\, a.
Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied;
irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.
[1913 Webster]
That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. --Bacon.
Syn: Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable;
incurable; hopeless. -- Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble*ness, n. --
Ir`re*cov"er*a*bly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
irrecoverable
adj 1: incapable of being recovered or regained [syn:
unrecoverable, irrecoverable] [ant: recoverable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "irrecoverable":
ago, antiquated, antique, beyond recall, beyond remedy, blown over,
by, bygone, bypast, cureless, dated, dead, dead and buried,
deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished,
forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, immedicable,
incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irredeemable,
irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable,
irreversible, irrevocable, lapsed, lost, no more, obsolete, over,
passe, passed, passed away, past, past hope, past praying for,
remediless, ruined, run out, terminal, undone, unmitigable,
unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, vanished, wound up