Irredeemable

Quick meaning: Irredeemable is an adjective meaning Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.

Meaning

Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.

More Meanings

1. (finance) A financial instrument that cannot be freely redeemed.
2. (finance, of debts, currency, etc.) Not able to be cancelled by a payment or converted to another form of currency or financial instrument, especially one considered more secure or reliable.

Example Sentences

She was horribly frightened; but she had pledged her word now, and it was irredeemable.

To Mr. [Jeff] Epstein, Mr. [Steve] Bannon said that while others called him irredeemable, “you are a lot of things — which we will show — but you are NOT that.”

It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.

The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to sell their subscription as soon as possible, prefer greatly a perpetual annuity, redeemable by parliament, to an irredeemable annuity, for a long term of years, of only equal amount.

Word Forms

• irredeemables

Synonyms for irredeemable

Depending on context, synonyms include unredeemable, wicked, irreclaimable, inconvertible, unexchangeable, unreformable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include irreclaimable, unredeemable, unreformable, unconvertible, inconvertible, unexchangeable.

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