different between sinful vs irreclaimable

English

Etymology

From Middle English sinful, synful, senful, sunful, from Old English synful (“sinful, guilty, wicked, corrupt”), equivalent to sin +? -ful. Cognate with Dutch zondevol (“sinful”), German sündevoll (“sinful”), Danish syndefuld (“sinful”), Swedish syndfull (“sinful”), Icelandic syndfullur (“sinful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nf?l/

Adjective

sinful (comparative more sinful, superlative most sinful)

1. constituting a sin; being morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil

   Antonym: sinless

2. (colloquial) decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent)

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

ir- +? reclaimable

Adjective

irreclaimable

1. Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable.

   irreclaimable land

2. Unredeemable.

   an irreclaimable criminal

   • 1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance (volume 1, page 174)

     Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.

Derived terms

• irreclaimably

References

• irreclaimable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• irreclaimable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.