irreclaimable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable.
adj
Example Sentences
- "irreclaimable land"
- "To most in prison/jail, the necessity to be trusted and believed is indispensable. The majority have already lost their stateliness, credibility and so on in the judicial mechanism. Add to that the certainty that all else is irreclaimable in the procedure and you can have the predominant component for suicide."
- "an irreclaimable criminal"
- "Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English ir- English reclaim Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English reclaimable English irreclaimable From ir- + reclaimable.