different between disreputable vs irreclaimable

English

Etymology

dis- +? reputable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s???pj?t?b?l/

Adjective

disreputable (comparative more disreputable, superlative most disreputable)

1. Not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.

Translations

Noun

disreputable (plural disreputables)

1. A person who is not reputable.

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.