remediless

English

Etymology

From Middle English remedylesse; equivalent to remedy +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛmədilɪs/
• Hyphenation: rem‧e‧di‧less

Adjective

remediless (not comparable)

1. Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.

   • 2010, Pakistan Labour Cases, volume 51, page 55:

     […] cannot be taken to mean that the petitioners have been left remediless.

Derived terms

• remedilessly
• remedilessness