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单词 irretrievable
释义

irretrievable

adjective

ir·​re·​triev·​able ˌir-i-ˈtrē-və-bəl How to pronounce irretrievable (audio)
: not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
irretrievability
ˌir-i-ˌtrē-və-ˈbi-lə-tē How to pronounce irretrievable (audio)
noun
irretrievably
ˌir-i-ˈtrē-və-blē How to pronounce irretrievable (audio)
adverb

Synonyms

  • hopeless
  • incorrigible
  • incurable
  • irrecoverable
  • irredeemable
  • irreformable
  • irremediable
  • unrecoverable
  • unredeemable
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Example Sentences

The data was irretrievable after the computer crashed. the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage
Recent Examples on the Web While the losses are irretrievable and emotional wounds still sting, Lee said Asian and Black Angelenos have achieved a remarkable amount of healing and community-building in the intervening years. NBC News, 28 Apr. 2022 That irretrievable three hours was probably not a good use of my time. Mark Settle, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022 Before the gore begins (and even mid-action), West seems to truly consider the pain of irretrievable youth, and feel for those whose final years are consumed by it. John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2022 The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said Monday that though unity and pressure on Russia was vital, the situation was not irretrievable. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022 Then, over the centuries (and especially in the 20th), nostalgia became less about longing for homeland and more about longing for home-time — for something static and irretrievable. Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2021 The book touches on the terror of the Nazi years and the repression of imposed by communism, all filtered through a sense of longing for a sensuous and irretrievable past. Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021 That purposeful spilling, and the fact that something spilled cannot be unspilled, denotes for Calasso the irretrievable nature of time’s arrow and time’s wound. New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020 But those masters still represent an irretrievable loss. New York Times, 11 June 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

irretrievable

adjective

ir·​re·​triev·​able ˌir-i-ˈtrē-və-bəl How to pronounce irretrievable (audio)
: impossible to get back
The lost data is irretrievable.

irretrievable

adjective

1
as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed an irretrievable drug addict who had wasted a once-promising life

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • hopeless
  • irrecoverable
  • unrecoverable
  • irremediable
  • incurable
  • incorrigible
  • irreparable
  • irreversible
  • irredeemable
  • unredeemable
  • uncorrectable
  • irreformable
  • unpromising
  • unrepentant
  • impenitent
  • unreformed
  • unregenerate
  • unencouraging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • recoverable
  • retrievable
  • remediable
  • reversible
  • curable
  • redeemable
  • reclaimable
  • promising
  • reformable
  • saveable
  • regretful
  • savable
  • encouraging
  • rueful
  • sorry
  • reparable
  • remorseful
  • salvageable
  • repentant
  • repairable
  • penitent
  • correctable
  • fixable
  • rectifiable
  • salvable
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2
as in irreparable
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone this is just an irretrievable mess, so let's start all over again

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • irreparable
  • irreversible
  • irrecoverable
  • unrecoverable
  • irremediable
  • irrevocable
  • irreplaceable
  • irredeemable
  • unredeemed
  • unredeemable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • retrievable
  • reparable
  • remediable
  • repairable
  • correctable
  • fixable
  • redeemable
  • corrigible
  • recovered
  • repaired
  • corrected
  • undoable
  • fixed
  • remedied
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