Dictionary Definition
irretrievable adj : impossible to recover or
recoup or overcome; "an irretrievable loss"; "irretrievable errors
in judgment" [syn: unretrievable]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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