Dictionary

un-unravelable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + unravelable.

Meanings

1. (rare) That cannot be unravelled; (by extension) difficult to understand.
   • Sheldon Cooper: Well, first of all, your lie was laughably transparent, where mine is exquisitely convoluted. While you were sleeping, I was weaving an un-unravelable web. 2009, Bill Prady and Lee Aronsohn, "The Loobenfeld Decay", episode 1-10 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:08:25-00:08:35
   • Two hours later, she waved JC off and set out for the Italian market where she bought Parma ham, sliced so wafer-thin it needed little sheets of wax paper between each slice, so they would not stick together in one un-unravelable lump, […] 2013, Elizabeth Adler, Please Don't Tell, pages 301–302:
   • Indeed, most moderns who know Luria's work only from secondary sources would be completely flummoxed to encounter the texts themselves with their endlessly arcane numerology, almost indescribably peculiar eroticism and byzantine, almost un-unravelable mythology. 2000, Martin Samuel Cohen, book review, Conservative Judaism, Volume 53, Number 1, Fall 2000, page 92

Forms

Antonyms

unravelable

Synonyms

unfathomable · inextricable · irresolvable

Translations (2)

de unlösbar (that cannot be unravelled) · fr indénouable (that cannot be unravelled)