retrieveless

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— […]