adj
Meaning 1
Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an insolvent debtor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
insolvent
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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ĭn-sŏlvʹ-ənt
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/ɪnˈsɒlv.ənt/
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General-American: /ɪnˈsɑːɫv.ənt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɒɫv.ənt/
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rhymes with -ɒlvənt
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N S AA1 L V AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Owing more than one has in assets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an insolvent estate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an insolvent person
- an insolvent estate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: solvent
noun
Meaning 6
someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bankrupt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English solvent English insolvent From in- + solvent.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: insolvent — Unable to pay
- Afrikaans: bankrot — Unable to pay
- Belarusian: неплацежаздо́льны (njeplacježazdólʹny) — Unable to pay
- Bulgarian: несъстоятелен (nesǎstojatelen) — Unable to pay
- Bulgarian: банкрутирал (bankrutiral) — Unable to pay
- Catalan: insolvent — Unable to pay
- Czech: insolventní — Unable to pay
- Czech: platebně neschopný — Unable to pay
- Danish: insolvent — Unable to pay
- Finnish: maksukyvytön — Unable to pay
- French: insolvable — Unable to pay
- German: insolvent — Unable to pay
- German: zahlungsunfähig — Unable to pay
- Greek: χρεωκοπημένος (chreokopiménos) — Unable to pay
- Hungarian: fizetőképtelen — Unable to pay
- Hungarian: fizetésképtelen — Unable to pay
- Italian: insolvente — Unable to pay
- Macedonian: инсолвентен (insolventen) — Unable to pay
- Macedonian: несолвентен (nesolventen) — Unable to pay
- Manx: neuhoogh — Unable to pay
- Māori: pēkerapu — Unable to pay
- Norman: însolvabl'ye — Unable to pay
- Norwegian Bokmål: betalingsudyktig — Unable to pay
- Norwegian Bokmål: insolvent — Unable to pay
- Norwegian Nynorsk: insolvent — Unable to pay
- Polish: niewypłacalny — Unable to pay
- Portuguese: insolvente — Unable to pay
- Romanian: insolvent — Unable to pay
- Romanian: insolvabil — Unable to pay
- Russian: неплатёжеспосо́бный (neplatjožesposóbnyj) — Unable to pay
- Spanish: insolvente — Unable to pay
- Turkish: müflis — Unable to pay
- Turkish: batkın — Unable to pay
- Ottoman Turkish: باتقین (batkın) — Unable to pay
- Ukrainian: неплатоспромо́жний (neplatospromóžnyj) — Unable to pay
Real reading context