Synonyms of irredeemable

irredeemable

adjective

ˌir-i-ˈdē-mə-bəl 

1

as in hopeless

not capable of being cured or reformed

resigned to the fact that his in-laws are irredeemable practical jokers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hopeless
• incurable
• incorrigible
• unredeemable
• irretrievable
• irremediable
• irrecoverable
• unrecoverable
• irreversible
• irreparable
• irreformable
• uncorrectable
• unrepentant
• unreformed
• unpromising
• impenitent
• unregenerate
• unencouraging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• redeemable
• recoverable
• curable
• reversible
• remediable
• retrievable
• promising
• encouraging
• reformable
• savable
• reclaimable
• repentant
• sorry
• remorseful
• regretful
• rueful
• penitent
• salvageable
• correctable
• reparable
• repairable
• rectifiable
• fixable
• salvable

2

as in irreversible

not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone

the irredeemable loss of innocence that the war brought about

Synonyms & Similar Words

• irreversible
• irreparable
• irretrievable
• irremediable
• irrevocable
• unredeemable
• irrecoverable
• unrecoverable
• irreplaceable
• unredeemed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• redeemable
• remediable
• retrievable
• reparable
• correctable
• repairable
• fixable
• corrected
• fixed
• corrigible
• recovered
• repaired
• undoable
• remedied

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of irredeemable

Wisdom reverses any narrative suggesting that man is inherently evil or irredeemable and reveals instead everyone’s true identity as wholly spiritual and divinely loved. — Larissa Snorek, Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2026

For movies, weed existed in its own sort of ecosystem as a world of petty rebellion and elastic logic, where characters could spiral into genuine obstacles without necessarily becoming irredeemable people. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2026

Ultimately, Borgli seems uninterested in drawing clear lines between right and wrong, preferring instead to let audiences make up their own minds about what is irredeemable and what’s not. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Apr. 2026

By the end, Moral Orel was not using caricatures to spoof these dummies and the whole concept of religion but looking deeply at them and seeing flawed, but perhaps not irredeemable, people. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026