remediless

rem·e·di·less
R1E1M3E1D2I1L1E1S1S1
/ˈɹɛmədilɪs/

adjective

Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.

OriginMiddle English remedylesse →
First used 16th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectiveremediless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.First known use 16th c.

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

    2010, Pakistan Labour Cases, volume 51, page 55
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    I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →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.

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

Origin

  1. Middle Englishremedylesse
  2. Englishremediless

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

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