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unrecuperable

unrecuperable adjective: not recuperable.

Adjective

unrecuperable (comparative more unrecuperable, superlative most unrecuperable)

  1. Not recuperable.
    • If now, Sir, it mought like you in approvyng your benevolent mynde towad me, wherein I doo specially trust, to sett furth with your gentill report unto the Kinges highness my true hart and diligent indevour in his graces service, to my importable charges and unrecuperable decay of my lyving, onlas...1534/5, Thomas Elyot, quotee, “Life of Elyot”, in Henry Herbert Stephen Croft, editor, The Boke Named The Gouernour, volume I, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., published 1880, page cxvi
    • He is concededly the dead weight on the ticket, and he has made his party as unrecuperable as his own fortunes.1874 October 29, “The Decline of Dix, and the Reason for It”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 35, number 257, Brooklyn, N.Y.
    Synonyms:
    irrecuperable

Synonyms of unrecuperable

Forms of unrecuperable

comparativemore unrecuperable
superlativemost unrecuperable

Origin of unrecuperable

From Middle English onrecuperable; equivalent to un- + recuperable.

Words formed from unrecuperable

Questions about unrecuperable

What does unrecuperable mean?
Unrecuperable means not recuperable.
What part of speech is unrecuperable?
Unrecuperable is an adjective.

Words near unrecuperable in the dictionary

  1. unrectifiability
  2. unrectifiable
  3. unrectifiably
  4. unrectified
  5. unrecumbent
  6. unrecuperable
  7. unrecuperably
  8. unrecuperated
  9. unrecurable
  10. unrecuring
  11. unrecurrent

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