irretrievable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ir=re=triev=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

irretrievable, a. 

 Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.

Syn. -- Irremediable; incurable; irrecoverable.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

irretrievable, adj. that cannot be retrieved or restored.

Derivative

irretrievability n. irretrievably adv.

THESAURUS

irretrievable

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

ROGET THESAURUS

irretrievable

Loss

N loss, deperdition, perdition, forfeiture, lapse, privation, bereavement, deprivation, riddance, damage, squandering, waste, losing, not having, shorn of, deprived of, denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off, dispossessed, rid of, quit of, out of pocket, lost, long lost, irretrievable, off one's hands, Int, farewell to!, adieu to.

Stability

N stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.

Hopelessness

N hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, Job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon, goner, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of Despond, cave of Despair, immedicabile vulnus, hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable, lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate, its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, mene mene tekel upharson.