unredeemable

Examples

• All

• The damage from the scandal left her reputation unredeemable, with little chance to regain public trust.

• Many believed that the organization's corrupt practices made it unredeemable, and drastic changes were necessary.

• Already, he felt his own life rendered unredeemable, all possibilities fallen away.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Eliot, all time is unredeemable.

  Blog text (29)

• Our existing system is unredeemable as it currently operates, financed.

  Blog text (2)

• Indeed, one powerful legacy of Haig's performance is the conviction among the imaginative and intelligent today of the unredeemable defectiveness of all civil and military leaders.

  Blog text (3)

• Unlike Paul, she was not Jewish, but came from a Boston family that had suffered an unredeemable setback during the Depression, thus putting an end to what must have seemed a promising musical career: she had begun life as a violin prodigy.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Caressing her in order to keep himself upright as well as to express his undying affection, he felt that he took himself into his arms, his former and present self, and knew himself lost, beyond love, fallen into some hopeless future, unredeemed and unredeemable.

  Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

I

irreparable

vsunredeemable

24 7.6

Too badly damaged to be fixed or made right again

focuses on moral or overall irredeemability instead of physical repairability

I

incorrigible

vsunredeemable

15 8.1

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

applies more broadly to being beyond saving or moral recovery

I

irredeemable

vsunredeemable

2 8.2

Not able to be changed for the better

has identical meaning but differs mainly in register or style

I

irremediable

vsunredeemable

1 9.6

Not able to be fixed or made better

stresses moral or redeeming impossibility rather than technical irreversibility

U

unreformable

vsunredeemable

1 8.8

Cannot change to behave or think in a better way

is similar but highlights finality in rescue or redemption over mere reform

U

uncorrectable

vsunredeemable

1 7.9

Not able to be fixed or controlled

narrows to being beyond moral or practical redemption rather than mere control

I

irreclaimable

vsunredeemable

9.9

Not able to be changed for the better

focuses more on moral or final loss rather than physical restoration

U

unreclaimable

vsunredeemable

8.7

No one can make a person behave in an acceptable way

emphasizes inability to be redeemed or morally improved instead of mere condition

I

irreformable

vsunredeemable

9.5

Something you cannot change or fix

places stronger emphasis on being beyond rescue or moral improvement

Antonyms

R

redeemable

1 5.6

Can change and be forgiven for past mistakes

I

improvable

1 4.1

Can be made better

How Redeemable

redeemable

1 5.6

salvageable

12 5.3

unredeemable

1 8.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology