retrievelessadj.
/rᵻˈtriːvləs/, U.S. /rəˈtrivləs/, /riˈtrivləs/ Chiefly poetic.
That cannot be retrieved; that makes retrieval impossible; irrevocable, irreversible.
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the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > lost > completely
unrecoverable?a1425
unrecurable1465
irrecuperable1483
unregainable1644
irrecoverable1645
irretrievable1695
retrieveless1703
spurlos versenkt1918
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > irretrievable
uncoverlyc1225
irrevocable1382
returnless?1615
reverseless1630
unretrievable1684
irretrievable1695
retrieveless1703
revokeless1774
irredeemable1839
1703 M. Chudleigh Song of Three Children 57 in Poems Several Occasions When they're to Diseases made a Prey, They'll then for their retrieveless Follies mourn.
1710 M. Chudleigh Ess. Several Subj. 24 Tumbling headlong down from Precipice to Precipice, till they are lost in a retrieveless Depth.
1819 F. C. Patrick Poems founded on Events of War Penins. 62 Franticly they wept, O'er the retrieveless scene of spoil.
1834 M. Howitt Seven Temptations 26 None are retrieveless; none are utterly alien to good, save the victim of avarice.
1850 J. S. C. Abbott Madame Roland v. 119 The endeavor would not only be utterly unavailing, but would, with certainty, involve them in speedy and retrieveless ruin.
c1871 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) III. 836 Till some retrieveless Night Our Vigilance at waste The Garden gets the only shot That never could be traced.
2005 H. R. Elam & F. Ferguson Wordsworthian Enlightenment 10 The trauma that is made visible, or overheard, in this woman's account is linked to an act that is ‘retrieveless’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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