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单词 irreclaimable
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Definition of irreclaimable in English:

irreclaimable

adjective ɪrɪˈkleɪməb(ə)lˌɪrəˈkleɪməb(ə)l
  • Not able to be reclaimed or reformed.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tears flooded my eyes when I realized how fortunate we were spending this irreclaimable time together.
    • It would be hackneyed if I say that death is something very sad and irreclaimable.
    • No impulse in man is irreclaimable; nothing human is doomed to destruction.
    • With all his savagery, he was not half so savage, so unclean, so irreclaimable, as the tenant of a tenement in an East London slum.
    • There was a proneness also in the new occupants to regard the natives as an irreclaimable race, and as inconvenient neighbours.
    Synonyms
    damned, fallen, cursed, accursed, irredeemable, irretrievable, past hope, past praying for, condemned, doomed, excommunicated

Derivatives

  • irreclaimably

  • adverb
    • No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘The oppressed,’ snarled Bierce, ‘are dirty, vicious, and irreclaimably ignorant.’
      • The Monsignor described the Abbey as a little corner of England which is irreclaimably French.
      • The brown thrush is instinctively and irreclaimably a recluse.
      • Others claim that the continuance of the sanctions carries in itself a risk that this country could irreclaimably become a rebel and alienated one.
 
 

Definition of irreclaimable in US English:

irreclaimable

adjectiveˌirəˈklāməb(ə)lˌɪrəˈkleɪməb(ə)l
  • Not able to be reclaimed or reformed.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It would be hackneyed if I say that death is something very sad and irreclaimable.
    • There was a proneness also in the new occupants to regard the natives as an irreclaimable race, and as inconvenient neighbours.
    • With all his savagery, he was not half so savage, so unclean, so irreclaimable, as the tenant of a tenement in an East London slum.
    • No impulse in man is irreclaimable; nothing human is doomed to destruction.
    • Tears flooded my eyes when I realized how fortunate we were spending this irreclaimable time together.
    Synonyms
    damned, fallen, cursed, accursed, irredeemable, irretrievable, past hope, past praying for, condemned, doomed, excommunicated
 
 
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