remediless
Cannot be fixed
Remediless means having no remedy or cure—beyond help or repair.
The word is archaic and literary, largely replaced by irremediable or hopeless: a remediless situation, remediless grief.
What is remediless cannot be fixed, healed, or undone.
Cannot be mended
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- permanentFixed without end
- irrevocableCannot be undone
- unalterableIncapable of being changed
indelible · unrectifiable · unchangeable · beyond repair · ruined · destroyed · shattered · broken
At the endpoint
- chronicPersisting over time
- untreatableCannot be healed
- inoperableCannot be repaired
- degenerativeCausing progressive decline
lifelong · fatal · intractable · unhealing · malignant · palliative · afflicted · stricken
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- forlornSad and abandoned
despondent · dejected · bleak · dismal · gloomy · fatalistic · defeated · crestfallen
Lacking strength or authority
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- impotentLacking power or efficacy
- strandedLeft without means to leave
abandoned · forsaken · unaided · exposed · marooned · adrift · outmatched · overwhelmed
unfixable
Cannot be mended
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- permanentFixed without end
- irrevocableCannot be undone
unalterable · indelible · unrectifiable · unchangeable · beyond repair · ruined · destroyed · shattered · broken · unsalvageable
terminal
At the endpoint
- chronicPersisting over time
- untreatableCannot be healed
- inoperableCannot be repaired
degenerative · lifelong · fatal · intractable · unhealing · malignant · palliative · afflicted · stricken · progressive
hopelessness
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- anguishIntense mental suffering
forlorn · despondent · dejected · bleak · dismal · gloomy · fatalistic · defeated · crestfallen · woebegone
powerless
Lacking strength or authority
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- impotentLacking power or efficacy
stranded · abandoned · forsaken · unaided · exposed · marooned · adrift · outmatched · overwhelmed · incapable
remedilessremediable
Capable of correction
curable · fixable · correctable · reparable · treatable
remedilesshopeful
Feeling positive expectation
solvable · surmountable · conquerable · manageable · addressable
remedy, remedial, remedied, remediation, irremediable, remediate, unremedied, irremediably