Irremediable

3 definitions found

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

  Irremediable \Ir`re*me"di*a*ble\, a. [L. irremediabilis: cf. F.
     irr['e]m['e]diable. See {In-} not, and {Remediable}.]
     Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as,
     an irremediable disease or evil.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irremediable
       adj : impossible to remedy or correct or redress; "an irremediable
             error"; "irremediable defects of character" [ant: {remediable}]

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

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "irremediable":
     ausgespielt, bankrupt, beyond recall, beyond remedy, blasted,
     blighted, broken, cureless, desolated, destroyed, devastated,
     done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, gone,
     gone to pot, immedicable, impossible, in ruins, incorrigible,
     incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable,
     irreformable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible,
     irrevocable, kaput, lost, overthrown, past hope, past praying for,
     ravaged, remediless, ruined, ruinous, spoiled, terminal,
     uncorrectable, undone, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable,
     unsalvageable, wasted, wrecked