adj
Meaning 1
Impossible to untie or disentangle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inextricable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪkəbəl/
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/ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Impossible to solve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Impossible from which to escape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: extricable
adjective
Meaning 4
not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an inextricable knot
- inextricable unity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: extricable
History
Etymology
From Middle French inextricable, from Latin inextricabilis.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: заплетен (zapleten) — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Bulgarian: неразвръзваем (nerazvrǎzvaem) — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Catalan: inextricable — impossible to untie or disentangle
- French: inextricable — impossible to untie or disentangle
- German: unentwirrbar — impossible to untie or disentangle
- German: unablösbar — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Italian: inestricabile — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Latin: inextricabilis — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Russian: не распутывающийся (ne rasputyvajuščijsja) — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Russian: безнадёжно запутанный (beznadjóžno zaputannyj) — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Spanish: inextricable — impossible to untie or disentangle
- Bulgarian: неразрешим (nerazrešim) — impossible to solve
- German: unlösbar — impossible to solve
- Russian: неразрешимый (nerazrešimyj) — impossible to solve
- Swedish: olöslig — impossible to solve
- Bulgarian: безизходен (bezizhoden) — impossible to escape from
- French: inextricable — impossible to escape from
- German: unentrinnbar — impossible to escape from
- Russian: безвыходный (bezvyxodnyj) — impossible to escape from
- Swedish: omöjlig att komma ur — impossible to escape from