irreparable

From Middle French irréparable, from Old French, from Latin irreparabilis

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɛp(ə)ɹəbəl/

irreparable (comparative more irreparable, superlative most irreparable)

1. Incapable of being repaired, amended, cured or rectified.
   • 1787, “The History of Europe”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Years 1784 and 1785, volume XXVII, London: Printed by J[ames] Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, OCLC 874176698, chapter VIII, page 134, column 1:

     It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them.

• irreparably

irreparable (masculine and feminine plural irreparables)

1. irreparable

• reparable

• irreparablement

irreparable (plural irreparables)

1. irreparable

• reparable

• irreparablemente