irrecoverably
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8.8
- adverb
- /ˌɪrɪˈkʌvərəbli/
:
irreparablemente
- When he deleted the file without a backup, he realized it was irrecoverably gone.
Examples
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But he did not even guess this, the wish being so irrecoverably buried.
Fiction book (1992) -
Oh, dark, dark, dark amid the blaze of noon, irrecoverably dark total eclipse without all hope of day.
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These efforts continued until January 26, 2010, when NASA officials announced that the rover was likely irrecoverably obstructed by its location in soft soil, though it continued to perform scientific research from its current location.
Blog text (32) -
So to skew the argument and paint the picture that approximately 50% of high school students will be losers for the rest of their lives, or impacted irrecoverably intellectually, is quite sensational.
Blog text (16) -
After the fire, the historic building was left irrecoverably damaged, with no chance of restoration.
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The drastic changes in the ecosystem meant that some species were irrecoverably lost to extinction.
Synonyms
16
7.7
So that something cannot be changed or undone
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7.5
In a way you cannot fix or make right
7
6.4
In a way that cannot be changed back
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8.1
In a way that cannot be changed back
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7.5
In a way that you can never change or fix
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8.4
In a way that cannot be fixed
In a way that cannot be fixed or returned to how it was before
In a way that cannot be brought back or fixed
How Recoverable
Surface Forms
Morphology
irrecoverably = irrecoverable (transparent) = ir + recover + able + ly
Formed by the productive negative prefix 'ir-' on 'recoverable' and the adverbial suffix '-ly', so the meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
Irrecoverably comes from the negative part ir- meaning 'not' and recover meaning 'to get back', with -ly turning it into a word that describes how something happens. So if something is lost irrecoverably, it cannot be got back or fixed, like a file destroyed after a hard drive crash.