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What is "irrecoverable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
irrecoverable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ irrecoverable costs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any advance paid, however, would be irrecoverable.
▪ Assuming the past is irrecoverable, the obvious fall-back positions are ethnicity and religion, singly or in combination.
▪ In the process, many irrecoverable secrets of nature are being lost for ever.
▪ In this case, however, Jane Austen does not assume that past values are irrecoverable.
▪ The investment is measured in terms of the irrecoverable time and expenses involved in the learning process.
▪ There are critical windows of time during which maturation must be achieved; failure of maturation is to some extent irrecoverable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irrecoverable

Irrecoverable \Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble\, a. Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.

That which is past is gone and irrecoverable.
--Bacon.

Syn: Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless. -- Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*cov"er*a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irrecoverable

mid-15c., from Old French irrecovrable, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + recovrable (see recover). In same sense irrecuperable (from Late Latin irrecuperabilis) is from mid-14c. Related: Irrecoverably.

Wiktionary
irrecoverable

a. 1 Not recoverable or admitting of recovery; incapable of being recovered: as, an irrecoverable debt. 2 That cannot be recovered from or made good; irremediable; as an irrecoverable disease; irrecoverable danger.

WordNet
irrecoverable

adj. incapable of being recovered or regained [syn: unrecoverable] [ant: recoverable]

Usage examples of "irrecoverable".

Rod shook his head as if to get away from the cobwebs of an irrecoverable tragedy.

When he dreamed, he was sometimes Eleanor again, and he sometimes had long morbid periods in which he was neither Eleanor nor Rod, but a nameless being cast out from some world or time of irrecoverable enchantments.

Peter now seemed her earliest friend, one who shared an otherwise irrecoverable childhood.

Then came a pause, whilst both were silently busy with the irrecoverable past.

In alleging negligence so construed, plaintiff asserts therewith the further charge of conversion linked to irrecoverable loss of the chattel wherein his claim for damages resides.

But then this summer would be over, this crazy, flickering summer dream, and along with it a thousand undrunk glasses would be spilled, a thousand unseen loving looks shattered, a thousand irrecoverable pictures extinguished unseen!

Damage to the Indian Ocean bio-system will be severe but, according to the projections, not irrecoverable.

So they all, Cecil included, began to get used to the idea of possessing irrecoverable property to the value of forty thousand pounds in the Mediterranean.