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inextricable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɪnɛkˈstrɪkəbəl/
  • /ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪkəbəl/
  • /ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəbəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle French inextricable, from Latin inextricabilis.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a knot etc) Impossible to untie or disentangle.
    • And when it comes to far-right anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews is inextricable from opposition to socialism. 2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:
  2. (not-comparable, of a problem) Impossible to solve.
  3. (not-comparable, of a maze etc) Impossible from which to escape.

Antonyms

extricable

Deriveds

inextricably · inextricableness

Translations (24)

ru не распутывающийся (impossible to untie or disentangle) · bg неразвръзваем (impossible to untie or disentangle) · sv omöjlig att komma ur (impossible to escape from) · it inestricabile (impossible to untie or disentangle) · la inextricabilis (impossible to untie or disentangle) · bg безизходен (impossible to escape from) · fr inextricable (impossible to untie or disentangle) · fr inextricable (impossible to escape from) · cs neoddělitelný (impossible to untie or disentangle) · ru безнадёжно запутанный (impossible to untie or disentangle) · bg заплетен (impossible to untie or disentangle) · cs neoddělitelně propojený (impossible to untie or disentangle) · sv olöslig (impossible to solve) · ru безвыходный (impossible to escape from) · de unlösbar (impossible to solve) · es inextricable (impossible to untie or disentangle) · ru неразрешимый (impossible to solve) · ca inextricable (impossible to untie or disentangle) · cs neřešitelný (impossible to solve) · bg неразрешим (impossible to solve) · de unentwirrbar (impossible to untie or disentangle) · de unablösbar (impossible to untie or disentangle) · cs nerozpletitelný (impossible to untie or disentangle) · de unentrinnbar (impossible to escape from)