unrecoverable

adjective

un·​re·​cov·​er·​able ˌən-ri-ˈkə-və-rə-bəl 

-ˈkəv-rə-

1

: unable to be recovered, recaptured, or regained : hopelessly lost : irrecoverable

unrecoverable loans

2

: unable to be corrected : irremediable

an unrecoverable error/failure

an airplane in an unrecoverable spin

Synonyms

• hopeless
• incorrigible
• incurable
• irrecoverable
• irredeemable
• irreformable
• irremediable
• irretrievable
• unredeemable

Examples of unrecoverable in a Sentence

believed that there was no such thing as an unrecoverable criminal

the flood caused unrecoverable damage to our home

Recent Examples on the Web

Without access to the device, the conversation contents are unrecoverable. —Lars Daniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

This means that once a PCC server is rebooted, no data is retained and, as an additional precaution, the entire system volume is cryptographically unrecoverable. —Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024

Someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly, in my view. —ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024

Some of this may have been prompted by the First and Second World Wars, which resulted in such multitudes of dead—men whose bodies were often unrecoverable—that the old rituals were no longer tenable. —Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1