irrecoverable sorrow

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• irrecoverable — /ɪrəˈkʌvərəbəl/ (say iruh kuvuhruhbuhl), / ˈkʌvrə / (say kuvruh ) adjective 1. that cannot be regained: an irrecoverable debt. 2. that cannot be remedied or rectified: irrecoverable sorrow. –irrecoverableness, noun –irrecoverably, adverb …  

• ir´re|cov´er|a|bly — ir|re|cov|er|a|ble «IHR ih KUHV uhr uh buhl, KUHV ruh », adjective. 1. that cannot be got back or regained: »Wasted time is irrecoverable. If the path is…once lost, it is irrecoverable (Thomas Hardy). SYNONYM(S): irretrievable. 2. Figurative.… …   Useful english dictionary

• ir´re|cov´er|a|ble|ness — ir|re|cov|er|a|ble «IHR ih KUHV uhr uh buhl, KUHV ruh », adjective. 1. that cannot be got back or regained: »Wasted time is irrecoverable. If the path is…once lost, it is irrecoverable (Thomas Hardy). SYNONYM(S): irretrievable. 2. Figurative.… …   Useful english dictionary

• ir|re|cov|er|a|ble — «IHR ih KUHV uhr uh buhl, KUHV ruh », adjective. 1. that cannot be got back or regained: »Wasted time is irrecoverable. If the path is…once lost, it is irrecoverable (Thomas Hardy). SYNONYM(S): irretrievable. 2. Figurative. that cannot be… …   Useful english dictionary

• Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …   History of philosophy