irreplaceable
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˌɪrɪˈpleɪsəbl/
:
insustituible
- The original manuscript is irreplaceable and must be preserved for future generations to appreciate.
- unique and irreplaceable
- irreplaceable part
- irreplaceable collections
Your life is irreplaceable and it needs to be treated as such.
- Your life is irreplaceable and it needs to be treated as such.
- Their memories that you know, are irreplaceable and, and, and just just unbelievable times.
- I my, my goal is to be a unique, irreplaceable version of myself.
- Humbleness plus ego slash confidence Become irreplaceable.
- That's an experience that's just irreplaceable.
- I want you to find actions you can take towards becoming essential, irreplaceable in whatever scenario you're in.
- They've been the people that, as a package, represented something to me that was irreplaceable.
- They're priceless and irreplaceable and at the same time they are vulnerable.
- But through that, you achieve love and you achieve, you know, this amazing relationship that's irreplaceable, right?
- So from the top all the way down to the bottom, everyone is noble in that they consider themselves as irreplaceable.
Examples
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The most important goal of any law on this subject is to prevent the destruction of these irreplaceable artifacts.
Academic text (2016) -
And if you ask me, a dad is an irreplaceable person in a girl's life.
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Your life is irreplaceable and it needs to be treated as such.
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You are irreplaceable, little girl.
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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
Fiction book (1990) -
Josh, this car is irreplaceable!
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The artifacts lost and destroyed at the museum are irreplaceable as well.
Academic text (2003) -
One can only hope that somehow someone was able to save the irreplaceable collections held by these institutions.
Academic text (1996) -
He was always there on an important occasion and his death means there is now an irreplaceable void in our nation's affairs.
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There is no one in this village who has not lost someone irreplaceable, who has not felt loss so deeply that they questioned the very merit of living at all.
Synonyms
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4.6
Needed so much you cannot do without it or them
Not able to be made again if lost or damaged
Not able to be changed or replaced
Not replaceable because it is one of a kind
So important and needed that you cannot do without it
Antonyms
How Replaceable
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3.3
32
6.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
irreplaceable = replaceable (transparent) = ir + replace + able
The negative prefix 'ir-' directly negates the adjective 'replaceable', yielding 'not able to be replaced', which is clear to learners familiar with the base.
Etymology
Irreplaceable breaks into parts: ir- meaning 'not', re- meaning 'again', and place meaning 'put'. So an irreplaceable thing is one you cannot 'put back' or get again, which is why it is impossible to replace.