irredeemably
- adverb
- /ˌɪrəˈdiməbli/
- 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.
- I knew in my heart that this final episode would be irredeemably the worst thing ever.
- They're just irredeemably sexist and and terrible people.
- Don't be like the world is irredeemably racist or it can't change because we have the statistics.
- So I, you know, irredeemably racist.
Examples
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The environment has been damaged irredeemably, leaving future generations with serious challenges.
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The ancient manuscript was so deteriorated that it was deemed irredeemably lost to history.
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The political landscape, in our view, has changed irredeemably, as we long ago believed it would.
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But there are so many bad ones that the culture is irredeemably corrupt.
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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.
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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.
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The Gnostics rejected the material world entirely and believed it was irredeemably corrupted.
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Synonyms
So that something cannot be changed or undone
In a way you cannot fix or make right
In a way that cannot be changed back
In a way that cannot be changed back
In a way that cannot be fixed
In a way that cannot be given back or fixed
In a way that cannot be changed or improved
In a way nothing can save or make better
In a way that cannot be changed
In a way that you cannot remove
How Redeemable
Surface Forms
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.