Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to remedy, correct, or repair; incurable or irreparable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not remediable; beyond remedy; incapable of being cured, corrected, or redressed: as, an irremediable disease; irremediable evil.
- Synonyms Incurable, remediless, irretrievable, irreparable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Unable to beremedied ,cured ,corrected orrepaired ;irreparable ,incurable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to remedy or correct or redress
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Examples
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The flanks of the Austrian host began to advance so as to enclose the small peasant force, and involve it in irremediable destruction.
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He fell into the common fault of incorrigible offenders; lamenting that he had not subdued the first cravings of desire, and wishing to recall the irremediable past, while to reform the present was too vast a labour.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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“Were it possible,” cried he, “for fate to reconcile contradictions, and recall the irremediable current of events, I would now believe that there was happiness still in reserve for the forlorn Zelos, now that I tread the land of freedom and humanity, now that I find myself befriended by the most generous of men.
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The mood changed as Robert Trevino mounted the podium, threw his body around, and grabbed the orchestra's attention with the opening of the Mozart, another of the great challenges at the beginning of big pieces that create a violent, irremediable pivot.
Laurence Vittes: Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans Laurence Vittes 2011
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The rationale for finding no preemption, the court thought, was “nicely underscored” by the facts here, because the primary claims of copyright infringement were “largely irremediable.”
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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I do not believe that irremediable math-related learning disabilities are as prevalent as people who were taught math very, very badly, often by people who did not themselves know how to do math.
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And while cameras don't tear the flesh off the victims' bones, the damage to their lives is often exorbitant and irremediable.
Carlo Strenger: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Media Circus and the Roman Arena Carlo Strenger 2011
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The mood changed as Robert Trevino mounted the podium, threw his body around, and grabbed the orchestra's attention with the opening of the Mozart, another of the great challenges at the beginning of big pieces that create a violent, irremediable pivot.
Laurence Vittes: Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans Laurence Vittes 2011
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And while cameras don't tear the flesh off the victims' bones, the damage to their lives is often exorbitant and irremediable.
Carlo Strenger: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Media Circus and the Roman Arena Carlo Strenger 2011
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And while cameras don't tear the flesh off the victims' bones, the damage to their lives is often exorbitant and irremediable.
Carlo Strenger: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Media Circus and the Roman Arena Carlo Strenger 2011
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