retrieveless

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English

Etymology

From retrieve +‎ -less.

Adjective

retrieveless (not comparable)

  1. Irretrievable.
    • 1853, John Quincy Adams, Poems of Religion and Society, page 38:
      They bid us seize the moments as they pass— / Snatch the retrieveless sunbeam as it flies, / Nor lose one sand of life's revolving glass— []