'Irretrievable' definitions:
Definition of 'irretrievable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Impossible to recover or recoup or overcome; "an irretrievable loss"; "irretrievable errors in judgment" [syn: irretrievable, unretrievable]
Definition of 'Irretrievable'
From: GCIDE
- Irretrievable \Ir`re*triev"a*ble\, a. Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.
- Syn: Irremediable; incurable; irrecoverable. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'irretrievable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablated,
- beyond recall,
- beyond remedy,
- by the board,
- changeless,
- constant,
- consumed,
- cureless,
- depleted,
- dissipated,
- eroded,
- expended,
- forfeit,
- forfeited,
- gone,
- immedicable,
- immutable,
- incommutable,
- inconvertible,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indefeasible,
- inert,
- inoperable,
- insusceptible of change,
- intransmutable,
- invariable,
- irreclaimable,
- irrecoverable,
- irredeemable,
- irreformable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irreversible,
- irrevocable,
- lasting,
- long-lost,
- lost,
- lost to,
- noble,
- nonreturnable,
- nonreversible,
- out the window,
- past hope,
- past praying for,
- permanent,
- remediless,
- reverseless,
- ruined,
- shrunken,
- squandered,
- terminal,
- unalterable,
- unalterative,
- unaltered,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- uncorrectable,
- undeflectable,
- undeviating,
- undone,
- unmitigable,
- unmodifiable,
- unrelievable,
- unremitting,
- unrestorable,
- unreturnable,
- unsalvable,
- unsalvageable,
- unsusceptible,
- unvariable,
- unvarying,
- used,
- used up,
- wasted,
- worn away