unrecoverable

English

Etymology

From Middle English unrecoverable, un recoverabyll, un recoverabylle, unrecuverable, equivalent to un- +‎ recoverable.[1] Attested earlier than recoverable.

Adjective

unrecoverable (not comparable)

  1. Not recoverable; that cannot be recovered.
  2. From which recovery is not possible.
    The software crashed with an unrecoverable error, and I lost half an hour of work.

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Noun

unrecoverable (plural unrecoverables)

  1. Something that cannot be recovered.

References

  1. ^ “unrecoverāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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