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irresoluble en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English resoluble English irresoluble From ir- + resoluble.

Meanings

  1. Difficult if not impossible to resolve; irresolvable.
    • When I saw him in the hallway with that weary look in his eyes, I thought of Kafka writing of his father, that the difference between them was one of temperament, as if their rift was irresoluble, no one’s fault. 2025, Aria Aber, Good Girl, Bloomsbury, page 252:

Forms

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more irresoluble Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most irresoluble Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

irresolubleness · irresolubly