IRREMEDIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irremediable mean? 

• IRREMEDIABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IRREMEDIABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to remedy or correct or redress

  Familiarity information: IRREMEDIABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRREMEDIABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to remedy or correct or redress

Context example:

irremediable defects of character

Antonym:

remediable (capable of being remedied or redressed)

 Context examples 

I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

One other little circumstance connected with Miss Dartle I must not omit; for I had reason to remember it thereafter, when all the irremediable past was rendered plain.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He stood as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil of his attentions last night, the irremediable mischief he might have done, was considered with sensations unqualified, unperplexed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I always say to her, 'you must make yourself easy. The evil is now irremediable, and it has been entirely your own doing. Why would you be persuaded by my uncle, Sir Robert, against your own judgment, to place Edward under private tuition, at the most critical time of his life? If you had only sent him to Westminster as well as myself, instead of sending him to Mr. Pratt's, all this would have been prevented.' This is the way in which I always consider the matter, and my mother is perfectly convinced of her error.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth, particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)