Irrecoverable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irrecoverable
       adj : incapable of being recovered or regained [syn: {unrecoverable}]
             [ant: {recoverable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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