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BNC: 33146 COCA: 29781

irretrievable

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irretrievable /ˌirɪˈtriːvəbəl/ adjective
irretrievable
/ˌirɪˈtriːvəbəl/
adjective
Learner's definition of IRRETRIEVABLE
somewhat formal
: impossible to recover or get back不能挽回的;无法复原的

— irretrievably

/ˌirɪˈtriːvəbli/ adverb
BNC: 33146 COCA: 29781

irretrievable

adjective

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

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

Time Traveler
The first known use of irretrievable was in 1702
BNC: 33146 COCA: 29781

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