unreclaimable

Examples

• All

• After years of harmful habits, he was considered unreclaimable by his friends who tired of trying to help him.

• The ritual of detestation, carried out in an open and public manner only after it was determined that Will was unreclaimable, was designed to bring destruction to the spirit of the flesh, thereby restoring order to this fledgling evangelical community attempting to live in but not of the world.

  Academic text (2006)

• Once the trust was broken, their relationship felt unreclaimable, as if it could never return to its previous state.

Synonyms

I

incorrigible

vsunreclaimable

15 8.1

Impossible to change or correct, often about someone's behavior

covers nonhuman cases and states as well as personal behavior

I

irrevocable

vsunreclaimable

14 8.1

Impossible to change or undo

is about permanent lack of improvement rather than legal finality

U

unrecoverable

vsunreclaimable

2 7.3

Something that cannot be fixed or brought back

focuses on permanent inability to improve rather than retrieval

U

unredeemable

vsunreclaimable

1 8.6

Cannot be changed to be good again

focuses on inability to be made acceptable rather than physical fix

U

unreformable

vsunreclaimable

1 8.8

Cannot change to behave or think in a better way

is the general term for not being improvable in many contexts

U

unrepairable

vsunreclaimable

1 4.7

Too damaged to be fixed and used again

is about being beyond moral or quality improvement rather than repair

I

irreclaimable

vsunreclaimable

9.9

Not able to be changed for the better

is the same idea but uses a different adjective form

I

irreformable

vsunreclaimable

9.5

Something you cannot change or fix

applies specifically to failing to reach an acceptable state

U

unretrievable

vsunreclaimable

7.9

Impossible to get back

highlights moral or quality failure rather than mere nonrecovery

U

unreturnable

vsunreclaimable

6.1

Not able to be made like it was before

emphasizes lasting unfixability in value or behavior rather than reversal

U

undevelopable

vsunreclaimable

• Specialized

7.4

Not able to be used or changed for building, like land that cannot have houses

is about inability to improve quality or behaviour, not construction

Antonyms

R

reformable

1 5.2

Able to be changed to be better

I

improvable

1 4.1

Can be made better

How Reformable

reformed

2 4.2

reformable

1 5.2

stubborn

217 2.9

unreclaimable

8.7

incorrigible

15 8.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology