irreparable
Cannot be mended
Irreparable describes damage or harm that cannot be fixed or undone: irreparable harm, irreparable damage to their relationship.
The word appears frequently in legal contexts, where plaintiffs must show irreparable injury to obtain injunctions.
Unlike merely serious damage, irreparable damage has no adequate remedy—what's broken stays broken.
Cannot be undone
- irremediableImpossible to correct
- incurableCannot be healed
- unfixableCannot be mended
- unsalvageableImpossible to recover
unmendable · irredeemable · unrestorable · unrecoverable · beyond · hopeless · terminal · fatal
Physical or psychological harm
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- breachBreaking of agreement
- violationBreaking of rules
betrayal · rupture · severance · estrangement · rift · fracture · division · alienation
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
void · deprivation · tragedy · devastation · irreplaceable · severance · forfeiture · extinction
Act of completely ruining
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
shattering · breakage · corrosion · decay · disintegration · demolition · defacement · vandalism
irreversible
Cannot be undone
- irremediableImpossible to correct
- incurableCannot be healed
- unfixableCannot be mended
unsalvageable · unmendable · irredeemable · unrestorable · unrecoverable · beyond · hopeless · terminal · fatal · inoperable
injury
Physical or psychological harm
violation · betrayal · rupture · severance · estrangement · rift · fracture · division · alienation · broken
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
sorrow · void · deprivation · tragedy · devastation · irreplaceable · severance · forfeiture · extinction · erasure
destruction
Act of completely ruining
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
wreckage · shattering · breakage · corrosion · decay · disintegration · demolition · defacement · vandalism · sabotage
- ruinedruined, destroyed, wrecked, demolished, obliterated
- destroyeddestroyed, demolished, annihilated, obliterated, decimated
irreparablerepairable
Able to be fixed
reparable · fixable · reversible · mendable · remediable