unrescuable

Past all help

Unrescuable describes someone or something that cannot be saved or retrieved from danger, failure, or ruin.

A climber trapped in an avalanche zone may be unrescuable.

The word often carries a note of finality—an unrescuable situation has passed the point where intervention could help: The relationship was unrescuable after what he said.

doomed

hopeless

Beyond possibility of success

finished · terminal · fatal · dead · gone · forsaken · abandoned · damned · fated · destined

irreversible

irreparable

Cannot be fixed

permanent · unrecoverable · unfixable · beyond repair · past saving · unredeemable · incorrigible · irreclaimable · unrestorable · ruined

dire

desperate

Driven by urgent need

catastrophic · disastrous · calamitous · bleak · grim · severe · extreme · precarious · ominous · alarming

Opposites
possibility of rescue/salvation

unrescuablerescuable

Capable of being saved

savable · salvageable · redeemable · recoverable · retrievable

degree of hopelessness

unrescuablehopeful

Feeling positive expectation

salvageable · viable · promising · within reach · reachable

Family

rescue, rescuable, rescuer, rescuers, rescued, rescuing, rescues, unrescued

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG