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beyond redemption

beyond redemption adjective: without the possibility of recovery or restoration; beyond a state of improvement or saving.

Adjective

beyond redemption (not comparable)

  1. Without the possibility of recovery or restoration; beyond a state of improvement or saving.
    • After an endless day of being beaten up at school for no good reason, and having to walk home in a blizzard for five endless hours, he took a long shower and went straight to bed before seven o'clock, convinced his day was beyond redemption.
    • “It’s none of your business how I speak to her. She’s my property now,” he continued to Dad and Frank with a sinister smile. The boy realised this man was bad. Bad beyond redemption.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
  2. Incapable of being saved from sin or evil.
    • Society holds the belief that mass murderers are beyond redemption.
    Synonyms:
    past redemption

Synonyms of beyond redemption

Questions about beyond redemption

What does beyond redemption mean?
Beyond redemption means without the possibility of recovery or restoration; beyond a state of improvement or saving.
What part of speech is beyond redemption?
Beyond redemption is an adjective.

Words near beyond redemption in the dictionary

  1. beyond one's wildest dreams
  2. beyond one's years
  3. beyond question
  4. beyond reason of a doubt
  5. beyond reasonable doubt
  6. beyond redemption
  7. beyond seas
  8. beyond someone's grasp
  9. beyond someone's scope
  10. beyond the beyonds
  11. beyond the black stump

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