(formal) that you can never make right or get back:
an irretrievable situation * the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage * The money already paid is irretrievable.
OPPRETRIEVABLE
irretrievably adverb:
Some of our old traditions are irretrievably lost.
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In this entry, irretrievable is tagged as adjective.
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