Impossible to retrieve or preserve from potential loss or destruction.
as many as 160,000 homes may be unsalvageable
Example sentencesExamples
Most of the lighting, the heating, cooling, and sound system in the theatre are most likely unsalvageable.
Two drops of java on his shirt is enough to make the day unsalvageable.
In his ambivalent report, he notes that many national institutions are "unsalvageable."
The ship was extensively damaged and deemed unsalvageable.
Fuel and tankers became so scarce in the spring of 1942 that oil was scavenged from the unsalvageable battleships still resting on the bottom of Battleship Row.
The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable.
Much of the milk, especially single-serves, became warm and was unsalvageable.
The fire was quickly extinguished, but the motorcycle was reduced to a smoking, unsalvageable cinder.
By the time they got there, the 106-year-old, three-story gabled house, on the graceful Esplanade, was engulfed in flames and unsalvageable.
Hardware was found to be worn out and unsalvageable.
Synonyms
unrecoverable, unreclaimable, irretrievable, irredeemable, irrevocable, unrestorable, irremediable, lost, lost and gone, gone for ever, beyond cure, beyond hope, hopeless