retrieveless

retrieveless

English

Etymology

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— […]