unrecuperable

English

Etymology

From Middle English onrecuperable; equivalent to un- +‎ recuperable.

Adjective

unrecuperable (comparative more unrecuperable, superlative most unrecuperable)

1. Not recuperable.
   • 1534/5, Thomas Elyot, quotee, “Life of Elyot”, in Henry Herbert Stephen Croft, editor, The Boke Named The Gouernour, volume I, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., published 1880, page cxvi:

     If now, Sir, it mought like you in approvyng your benevolent mynde towad me, wherein I doo specially trust, to sett furth with your gentill report unto the Kinges highness my true hart and diligent indevour in his graces service, to my importable charges and unrecuperable decay of my lyving, onlas his highness relieve me with his abundaunt and graciouse liberalitie;

   • 1874 October 29, “The Decline of Dix, and the Reason for It”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle‎^[1], volume 35, number 257, Brooklyn, N.Y.:

     He is concededly the dead weight on the ticket, and he has made his party as unrecuperable as his own fortunes.

   • 2001 May 5, “I is a gangsta”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, section “Saturday Review”, page 10:

     As the tale trundles on to its downbeat ending, via crosses and double-crosses at Tilbury Docks, we are left in little doubt as to the unrecuperable sadnesses of J’s life, standing in the tattered ruins of his existence.

Synonyms

• irrecuperable

Derived terms

• unrecuperably