irretrievable
/ɪrɪˈtriːvəb(ə)l/
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American sound/ɪrɪˈtriːvəb(ə)l/
ɪrɪˈtriːvəbəl
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ɪrɪ - ˈtriːvəbəl -> irretrievable
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irretrievable /ÇrÇ'tri:vǝbl/ adj (fml )
အဖတ်ဆယ်၍မရသော။ an irretrievable situation ❍ the irretrievable breakdown of their marriage. irretrievably /-ǝbli/ adv
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irreparable, irreversible, permanent, irrevocable, lasting, severe, absent, adrift, astray, at end of one's rope, at sea, back to the wall, beyond recall, beyond repair, broken, can't win, cast away, certain, changeless, constant, cureless, dead duck, despairing, despondent, desponding, destroyed, disappeared, disoriented, doomed, down the drain, downcast, established, fallen between cracks, fated, final, fixed, forfeit, forfeited, forlorn, futile, gone, gone astray, goner, hard up, hidden, hopeless, immutable, impossible, in the soup, in the toilet, inconsolable, incorrigible, incurable, indelible, inevitable, invariable, invisible, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irremedial, irreplaceable, kiss goodbye, lacking, lost, minus, mislaid, misplaced, missed, missing, no-chance, no-way, no-win, nowhere to be found, obscured, off-course, off-track, out the window, predestined, predetermined, ruined, running out of time, sad, settled, strayed, sunk, unalterable, unchangeable, uncorrectable, unrecoverable, unredeemed, unrepealable, unreversible, up against it, up the creek, useless, vain, vanished, wandering, wayward, without, wretched
Antonyms
accomplishing, alive, alterable, attentive, aware, calm, changeable, cheerful, cognizant, confident, content, contented, existent, existing, fixable, found, happy, hopeful, joyful, living, mendable, repairable, reparable, reversible, revocable, satisfactory, satisfied, secure, seen, successful, unworried, winning
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