irredeemable
/ɪrɪˈdiːməb(ə)l
/adjective
1Not able to be saved, improved, or corrected: so many irredeemable mistakes have been made...
- He can drop back down to Austin and tap one of the truly irredeemable die-hards on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
- He remains curiously aloof and is one of the writer's greatest challenges - a man who can't be reached: unconvinced, irredeemable.
- But then again, maybe I'm just an irredeemable optimist.
2(Of paper currency) for which the issuing authority does not undertake to pay coin.In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime....
- The Constitution still prohibits the use of irredeemable currency and synthetic credit.
- However, it is important to note that the discount on irredeemable currency, although obviously going to 100 percent, is never doing it along a straight line.
2.1(Of securities) on which no date is given for repayment of the capital sum.Pibs are irredeemable shares that pay a fixed rate of interest....
- Fraught bond negotiations concluded with the trustees selling 7.3 per cent thirty-year irredeemable gold bonds.
Derivatives
irredeemability
- Capitalist Realism insists on the irredeemability of human beings, the impossibility of Justice, the inevitability of corruption…
- The rising specter of irredeemability is stalking us.
irredeemably
/ adverb ...- Perhaps men are irredeemably sexist.
- Each has been corrupted by its occupation and seen its reputation irredeemably tarnished by the harsh, repressive and trigger-happy behaviour of its soldiers.
- Relying as they must on our current ideas of what is true, important, and right, our judgments about progress can begin to appear irredeemably parochial.