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irreclaimable

adj

Etymology

From ir- + reclaimable.

  1. derived from reclamo
  2. derived from reclamer
  3. derived from reclamer
  4. inherited from reclaymen
  5. suffixed as reclaimable — “reclaim + able”
  6. prefixed as irreclaimable — “in + reclaimable”

Definitions

  1. Incapable of being reclaimed

    Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable.

    • irreclaimable land

  2. Unredeemable.

    • an irreclaimable criminal
    • Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at irreclaimable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at irreclaimable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at irreclaimable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA