adj
Meaning 1
Impossible to solve; insoluble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
insolvable
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/ɪnˈsɒlvəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Incapable of being paid or discharged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an insolvable debt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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adj
Meaning 3
Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
not easily solved- C.L.Jones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an apparantly insolvable problem
- public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unsoluble, unsolvable, unresolvable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From in- + solvable. Piecewise doublet of insoluble and unsolvable.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: անլուծելի (anluceli) — impossible to solve
- Finnish: ratkeamaton — impossible to solve
- French: insoluble — impossible to solve
- German: unlösbar — impossible to solve
- Hungarian: megoldhatatlan — impossible to solve
- Japanese: 解決できない (kaiketsu dekinai) — impossible to solve
- Japanese: 解けない (tokenai) — impossible to solve
- Japanese: 割り切れない (warikirenai) — impossible to solve
- Polish: nierozwiązywalny — impossible to solve
- Polish: nierozwiązalny — impossible to solve
- Spanish: insoluble — impossible to solve
- Polish: niewypłacalny — incapable of being paid
- Polish: nierozwiązywalny — not capable of being disentangled
- Polish: nierozwiązalny — not capable of being disentangled