51Թ

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irreclaimable

[ ir-i-kley-muh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. incapable of being reclaimed or rehabilitated:

    an irreclaimable swamp; irreclaimable offenders.



irreclaimable

/ ˌɪɪˈɪəə /

adjective

  1. not able to be reclaimed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈ, adverb
  • ˌˌˈٲ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • r·a·i·ٲ r·a··Ա noun
  • r·a· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of irreclaimable1

First recorded in 1600–10; ir- 2 + reclaimable ( def )
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Example Sentences

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He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable.

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In Claud's mind was a bitter thought which has countless times occurred to most of us, that the past is absolutely irreclaimable.

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Greene was most undoubtedly an irreclaimable vagabond, as well as a most ungrateful person.

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But parent love suffereth long and is kind, hopes against hope, and waits and is still hopeful when every one else has written the offender down irreclaimable.

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SelfÐabandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

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