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irredeemable

/ɪɹəˈdiːməbəl/

irredeemable adjective: not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.

Adjective

irredeemable

  1. Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.
    • It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
    • She was horribly frightened; but she had pledged her word now, and it was irredeemable.1909, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 2, in True Tilda
  2. (usually, currency) Not able to be cancelled by a payment or converted to another form of currency or financial instrument, especially one considered more secure or reliable.
    • The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to sell their subscription as soon as possible, prefer greatly a perpetual annuity, redeemable by parliament, to an irredeemable annuity, for a long term of years, of only equal amount.1776, Adam Smith, chapter 3, in The Wealth of Nations
    • Investors have always had to trust somebody or something. . . . But they have not always had to make a leap of faith about a nation's irredeemable paper currency. Up until Aug. 15, 1971 the dollar was exchangeable into gold at the rate of $35 to the ounce.2005 October 31, James Grant, “O Sage! O Confidence Man!”, in Forbes, retrieved 17 Aug 2010

Noun

irredeemable (plural irredeemables)

  1. A financial instrument that cannot be freely redeemed.

irredeemable meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

irredeemable in Tamil

மீட்க இயலாத, மீட்க முடியாத, உருப்படாத

irredeemable in Urdu

ناقابل اصلاح, ناقص

irredeemable in Kannada

ಹಿಂದೆ ತರಲಾಗದ, ಹಣಪಡೆಯಲಾಗದ, ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಲಾಗದ

Synonyms of irredeemable

Forms of irredeemable

pluralirredeemables

Origin of irredeemable

From ir- + redeemable.

Words formed from irredeemable

Questions about irredeemable

What does irredeemable mean?
Irredeemable means not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.
What is irredeemable in Tamil?
Irredeemable in Tamil is மீட்க இயலாத, மீட்க முடியாத, உருப்படாத. See Irredeemable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is irredeemable?
Irredeemable can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce irredeemable?
Irredeemable is pronounced /ɪɹəˈdiːməbəl/.

Words near irredeemable in the dictionary

  1. irrecuperably
  2. irrecusable
  3. irrecusably
  4. irred.
  5. irredeemability
  6. irredeemable
  7. irredeemableness
  8. irredeemables
  9. irredeemably
  10. irredeemed
  11. irredenta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: irredeemable (page history and authors); irredeemable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); irredeemable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); irredeemable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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