heypolyglot
Italian

irrecuperabile

/ir.re.ku.peˈra.bi.le/adjectiveC1
Extended vocabulary · Vocabulary rank 29,598

Meaning

beyond repair, hopeless

  • Impossible to recover, repair, or retrieve.
  • Hopeless or lost beyond remedy (of a situation or person).

In a sentence

Purtroppo il disco rigido è danneggiato ed è irrecuperabile.

Unfortunately, the hard drive is damaged and beyond repair.

Pensi davvero che il nostro rapporto sia irrecuperabile?

Do you really think our relationship is hopeless?

I file cancellati per errore non sono del tutto irrecuperabili.

The accidentally deleted files are not entirely unrecoverable.

Word forms (4)
WordWord forms
irrecuperabilemasculine · singular
irrecuperabilefeminine · singular
irrecuperabilimasculine · plural
irrecuperabilifeminine · plural

Usage notes

  • Ends in -e, so it has identical forms for masculine and feminine in both singular (-e) and plural (-i).

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