irretrievable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   impossible to recover, restore, or put right

   The archive suffered irretrievable damage in the fire.

Common collocations

• irretrievable loss Adjective + noun

Formed from ir-, the assimilated form of in- meaning not, + retrievable. Retrievable is built from retrieve, ultimately from Old French retrouver, meaning to find again.

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