1
as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
unredeemable sinners
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as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
misspelling the name of the store on the sign was hardly an unredeemable error—you can paint over your mistake
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Recent Examples of unredeemable
Our Western inheritance, then: the concept of the deep underground as wasteland, dump, terminus of the unredeemable.
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell.
—Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Her dad was unredeemable.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable.
—Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell.
—Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Her dad was unredeemable.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them.
—New York Times, 12 July 2022
Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable.
—Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unredeemable
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Gein’s sickness is singular and curable, but ours, as a society, is out of control and hopeless?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Oct. 2025
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The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The customer service representative informed the man both transactions had been completed and all transactions are final and irreversible, according to the complaint.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Oct. 2025
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And some experts and lawmakers are raising concerns that the agency’s myriad other programs and projects could be barreling toward irreversible harm.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Unwilling to make any declarations about turning his season around, Betts instead declared his season individually irredeemable.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
9 Aug. 2025
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Since, by this point, Nan’s actions seem irredeemable, this is when the big pregnancy news gets revealed.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Hence, Jones will clearly experience irreparable injury if a stay is not granted.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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In addressing irreparable harm, Immergut said the state faced constitutional injury from loss of control over its Guard, operational harm from diversion of troops trained for state emergencies and public safety risks.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, LMD is an incurable condition in which cancer cells spread from an advanced cancer to the cerebrospinal fluid and the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Doctors quickly diagnosed Shinae with a cancerous astrocytoma, and told her that it was considered incurable because of where it's located in her brain.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Who was this alien observer, whose gaze made me into a (slightly) better person, whose gaze (slightly) reduced my incorrigible self-centeredness?—
Michael W. Clune,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Unredeemable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unredeemable. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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