remediless

[ rem-i-dee-lis ]

adjective

1. not admitting of remedy, as disease, trouble, damage, etc.; unremediable.

Word History and Origins

Origin of remediless¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; remedy, -less

Example Sentences

He added that the European Union was “remediless, weak and void of humane feelings,” calling the Greek border guards thugs.

From New York Times

Sometimes they are driven through despair to the sick bed of a remediless delirium, and to the revolting recklessness of self-destruction.

From Project Gutenberg

Since their danger is so great, their fall so remediless, let mercies be multiplied when there is a chance of that partial restoration which society at present permits.

From Project Gutenberg

Some one has prettily said that the fault of a friend is like a flaw in a beautiful china vase; the defect is remediless; let us overlook it, and dwell only upon what will give us pleasure.

From Project Gutenberg

Then I, Job Hortop, and John Bone, were called, and brought to the place, as before, when we heard our sentence, which was, that we should go to the Galleys, and there to row at the oar's end ten years, and then to be brought back to the Inquisition House, to have the coat with S. Andrew's cross put on our backs, and from thence to go to the everlasting prison remediless.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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