irreplaceable

English

Etymology

ir- +‎ replaceable

Adjective

irreplaceable (not comparable)

1. That cannot be replaced, especially because it is unique.
   • 1960, Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), The Commonwealth and Europe (page 182)

     For some purposes lead is unique and, apparently, irreplaceable. Battery plates may be an example of this.

Antonyms

• replaceable

Derived terms

• irreplaceability
• irreplaceably
• irreplaceableness

Translations

that cannot be replaced

• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: незаменим (bg) (nezamenim)
• Catalan: irreemplaçable, insubstituïble
• Czech: nenahraditelný (cs) m
• Esperanto: neanstataŭigebla
• Finnish: korvaamaton (fi)
• French: irremplaçable (fr)
• Galician: insubstituíble (gl), insubstituíbel (gl)
• German: unersetzbar, unersetzlich
• Italian: insostituibile (it)
• Latvian: neaizstājams
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uerstattelig

  Nynorsk: uerstatteleg

• Occitan: irreemplaçable, irremplaçable
• Polish: niezastąpiony m
• Portuguese: insubstituível
• Russian: незамени́мый (ru) (nezamenímyj)
• Spanish: irreemplazable, insustituible