A word for a favor/debt that cannot be repaid
I just feel like unrepayable isn't actually a word. Thesauri are not being helpful.
Consider a case in which someone saves your child's life. There is nothing you can ever do to pay them back for this favor.
What they have done for you is [word I'm looking for].
What they have done for you is unrequitable
from v. requite: to make repayment or return for service, benefits, etc.
It can be found in sonnets and poems in the context of love and also of favours
I think there is a more common expression which might express the deep gratitude one feels towards another person, a person who has saved your child's life. I would say to that man or woman
Thank you—I am forever indebted to you.
Typical collocations with indebted are:
- deeply, greatly, much, profoundly
- eternally, forever
"There is nothing that I can pay you for your deed. What you have done is priceless."
I can't think of anything else, but maybe this will get some ideas started for you.