Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irredeemable \Ir`re*deem"a*ble\, a. Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + redeemable. Related: Irredeemably.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped. 2 (context finance of debts, currency, etc. English) Not able to be cancelled by a payment or converted to another form of currency or financial instrument, especially one considered more secure or reliable.
WordNet
adj. insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners" [syn: irreclaimable, unredeemable, unreformable]
(of paper money) not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder
Wikipedia
Irredeemable is an American comic book series written by Mark Waid and published by Boom! Studios. The series follows the fall of the world's greatest superhero, the Plutonian, as he begins slaughtering the population of Earth. His former allies, the superhero group The Paradigm, attempt to find a way to stop his rampage while dealing with their own problems of betrayal and hopelessness. Irredeemable #1 premiered in April 2009, and the series ended in May 2012, after thirty-seven issues and one special. Peter Krause was the artist for the first twenty-four issues, after which Diego Barretto took over as artist. A spin-off titled Incorruptible was released in December 2009, which follows one of the Plutonian's greatest enemies, Max Damage, on his journey to become a superhero in the wake of Plutonian's fall. Waid brought both series to a conclusion in May 2012.
Usage examples of "irredeemable".
He then went on to express very earnestly his objection to the measure and to the whole policy, and his dislike of irredeemable paper.
The Democratic Party, which more lately favored the payment of all debts, public and private, in irredeemable paper money, had assailed the Republican Administration during the war for providing, under an alleged necessity that Treasury notes, called greenbacks, should be legal tender for the discharge of all debts.
He also combated with great power the dangerous heresy of fiat money and an irredeemable currency.
He had no sympathies with any measures that would debase or unsettle the currency, and set his face and gave his powerful influence against all forms of fiat or irredeemable paper money, and the kindred folly of the free coinage of silver by this country alone, without the concurrence of the commercial nations of the world.
No one would do anything to save her, but everyone would know, even irredeemable idiots who thought chess was a childish game.
A woman cannot be low without being disgusting, whereas a good male comedian can give the impression of something irredeemable and yet innocent, like a sparrow.
These additional sources of supply, which aid the poorer peasants to pass through a year of bad crops without parting with their small plots of land and without running into irredeemable debts, have certainly their importance for both the agricultural labourers and the nearly three millions of small peasant proprietors.
Its efficiency silenced all but the irredeemable cynics, those inhabitants of the city who enjoyed Dublin the more for being able to find daily reminders of its chaos and decrepitude.
Although his spoken command of the Hevian language was limited to the tenses of past indictable, present excitable and future irredeemable, his vocabulary a thoroughly unbotanical mixture of stems and roots, and his declensions one massive disinclination to decline, he found that he was developing a fair facility at understanding the language, at least when it was being spoken this slowly.
No one but an irredeemable fool would slosh through this storm to attend an unrequired event in the Auditorium, Tubby was not only willing but almost eager to watch Bill Cunningham confront a dismaying battery of vacant seats.
That this irredeemable quality was given it for the avowed purpose of inviting it's transfer to foreign countries.
He became an octli drunkard, a pitiful ruin, but he had enough self-respect remaining that, before he brought irredeemable shame to his new and noble title, he too volunteered to participate in a sacrificial ceremony.