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irredeemably

irredeemably

3 7.5
In a way that you can never change or fix
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪrəˈdiməbli/
translation icon : irredimiblemente
  • After the scandal, the trust between the partners was irredeemably broken.

I knew in my heart that this final episode would be irredeemably the worst thing ever.

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Examples

  • The environment has been damaged irredeemably, leaving future generations with serious challenges.

  • The ancient manuscript was so deteriorated that it was deemed irredeemably lost to history.

  • The political landscape, in our view, has changed irredeemably, as we long ago believed it would.

    Blog text (18)
  • But there are so many bad ones that the culture is irredeemably corrupt.

    Blog text (19)
  • Nothing irredeemably bad had ever happened to Cara in her childhood or since.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • We really can't survive as a country if we believe that the other half is irredeemably evil.

    Blog text (14)
  • The irony is that, for all his modern influence, Newton was irredeemably medieval.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Unless one keeps every single commandment perfectly, one is irredeemably condemned.

    Academic text (2000)
  • BUT this doesn't make you an irredeemably bad person, a villain, or even a bad photographer.

    Blog text (12)
  • The Gnostics rejected the material world entirely and believed it was irredeemably corrupted.

    Blog text (33)

Synonyms

irrevocably
vsirredeemably
16 7.7

So that something cannot be changed or undone

shares permanence but adds a sense of being hopelessly ruined
irreparably
vsirredeemably
9 7.5

In a way you cannot fix or make right

covers the same irreversibility but stresses hopelessness to improve
irreversibly
vsirredeemably
7 6.4

In a way that cannot be changed back

is similar but stresses final hopelessness rather than just irreversibility
irretrievably
vsirredeemably
5 8.1

In a way that cannot be changed back

is broader, highlighting permanent hopelessness rather than only loss
irremediably
vsirredeemably
1 8.4

In a way that cannot be fixed

focuses more on complete hopelessness than on repair processes
irrecoverably
vsirredeemably
1 8.8

In a way that cannot be given back or fixed

covers the same permanence but adds a sense of hopelessness
incorrigibly
vsirredeemably
1 9.8

In a way that cannot be changed or improved

overlaps but focuses more on personal or moral inability to change
unredeemably
vsirredeemably
9.6

In a way nothing can save or make better

expresses the same total hopelessness but in broader situations
inalterably
vsirredeemably
7.8

In a way that cannot be changed

is alike but adds the idea of being hopeless to improve or save
ineradicably
vsirredeemably
8.6

In a way that you cannot remove

differs by stressing permanence of presence rather than hopeless ruin

How Redeemable

irredeemably
3 7.5
hopelessly
60 3.7
incorrigibly
1 9.8

Surface Forms

irredeemably positive

Morphology

irredeemably = irredeemable (semi-transparent) = ir + redeem + able + ly

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'irredeemable' with '-ly'.

Etymology

The word irredeemably begins with ir- meaning 'not' and the root redeem meaning 'to buy back or save'. So irredeemably means 'not able to be bought back, changed, or saved', which is why we use it for something completely and hopelessly lost.