Crossword clues for irreplaceable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1807, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + replaceable. Related: Irreplaceably.
Wiktionary
a. That cannot be replaced.
WordNet
adj. impossible to replace; "irreplaceable antiques" [syn: unreplaceable] [ant: replaceable]
not possible to replace
Wikipedia
"Irreplaceable" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her second studio album, B'Day (2006). The song was written by Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith, Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel, S. Eriksen, Espen Lind, Amund Bjørklund, Beyoncé and produced by Stargate and Beyoncé. "Irreplaceable" was originally a country record; it was re-arranged as a mid- tempo ballad with pop and R&B influences by modifying the vocal arrangements and instrumentation. During the production and recording sessions, Beyoncé and Ne-Yo wanted to create a record which people of either gender could relate to. The song's lyrics are about the breakdown of a relationship with an unfaithful man and the song contains a message about female empowerment.
Following the moderate chart performances of " Déjà Vu" and " Ring the Alarm", "Irreplaceable" was released internationally on October 23, 2006 as the album's second single, and the third in the United States on December 5, 2006. The single was released through Columbia Records. "Irreplaceable" was well received by contemporary music critics, who cited its distinct production compared with most songs featured on the album, and complimented its hook, "To the left, to the left". Pitchfork Media and Rolling Stone placed it on their lists of Best Songs of the 2000s. "Irreplaceable" won several awards, including Best R&B/Soul Single at the 2007 Soul Train Music Awards. It was nominated for the Record of the Year award at the 50th Grammy Awards.
The single was commercially successful worldwide. It became Beyoncé's fourth number-one in the U.S., was B'Days most successful release, and remained at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive weeks. "Irreplaceable" was the best-selling U.S. single of 2007, the twenty-fifth most successful song of the 2000s (decade) in the U.S., and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It became Beyoncé's second single to achieve 200 million audience impressions in 2006. She is the second singer to achieve this feat in the U.S., the first having been Mariah Carey in 2005. "Irreplaceable" peaked at number one in Australia, at number four in the United Kingdom, and reached the top twenty in several European countries. "Irreplaceable" was 2007's tenth best-selling digital single with over 4.6 million copies sold worldwide.
The single's accompanying music video was directed by Anthony Mandler and served as the debut performance of Beyoncé's all-female band, Suga Mama. The video was included on the 2007 B'Day Anthology Video Album, and a video edit was produced for "Irreemplazable", the Spanish version of the song. It won the Video of the Year award at the 2007 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, and was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year at the 2007 Awards. "Irreplaceable" has regularly featured in Beyoncé's tours and live performances since 2006. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) recognized the song as one of the most performed of 2007 at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.
Irreplaceable is a studio album by American musician George Benson. The album, released by GRP Records in 2003, was recorded in contemporary R&B style; however, it was re-recorded in more smooth jazz style and released in 2004, containing 3 new songs.
Irreplaceable (original title: Médecin de campagne) is a 2016 French dramedy film directed and co-written by Thomas Lilti. It stars François Cluzet and Marianne Denicourt.
Usage examples of "irreplaceable".
And from what Fermi said, every gadget here had to be treated as irreplaceable.
He had to lose what was royal in his life of poverty, the irreplaceable riches that he so greatly and gluttonously enjoyed, to earn a little bit of money that would not buy one-millionth of those treasures.
There are over two million volumes in the New York Public Library, Morant tells us, including hundreds of irreplaceable first editions.
It is the rustiest of cliches to say, upon the death of most people, that they were irreplaceable.
Mahnmut hesitated a moment, but then slipped the irreplaceable book of sonnets into his backpack, trotted to the mid-deck, and joined in the lashing down of the lowered lateen sail.
Once he had accidentally broken a crystal chessman, one of the handsome horsemen he loved to play with as he imagined himself among their number, and although the piece was irreplaceable, she had merely ordered a matching piece carved out of wood and had said no more about the incident.
Consequently, in this season's budgetary panic, Preservation 2000 could be jeopardizedand with it, hundreds of thousands of acres of irreplaceable wilderness.
Irreplaceable treasure indeed: two hammers, three chisels, his awl and his axe, a shovel blade, a spokeshave, a plane, a kettle, a longhandled metal spoon, firetongs, the cowhides that had been stretched across the bed-frames, a furl of cloth that still showed rusty bloodstains… “We couldn’t carry it all,” Orta had explained.
There, where the state ceaseth there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.
He knew that even in his own mountains victory over the invaders might well be a narrow, chancy business, and so he husbanded his fighters, seeing clearly that utter folly of frittering away irreplaceable strength in pointless harassment.
But you who worry so much about our precious genetic heritage and our irreplaceable instruments of embryo nurture might stop and think a little about the logic of risking one of the two people on board who have a thorough understanding of how to operate our gene bank.
He kept on needling me with what he called the unfor givable crime of the chance seers, which makes us focus our irreplaceable energy on something that has no power whatsoever to do anything.
For thousands of years this people has defended this irreplaceable treasury and its temple with little more than their hustle and bustle and their bladders.
We've lost irreplaceable Masters and promising journeymen in every Craft.
These irreplaceable texts - bound like thin, small accordions and known as codices - 'contained nothing in which there was not to be seen superstitions and lies of the devil,' Landa reported to his superiors.