Inextricable
[ɪn'ekstrɪkəb(ə)l;,ɪnɪk'strɪk-;,ɪnek-] or ['ɪnɪk'st
Definition
(adj.) not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied; 'an inextricable knot'; 'inextricable unity' .
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
(a.) Inevitable.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Intricate, perplexed, entangled, that cannot be disentangled, not to be unravelled.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Overwhelming, irredeemable, fatal
ANT:Remediable, redeemable
Typist: Shelley
Definition
adj. not able to be extricated or disentangled.—adv. Inex′tricably.
Editor: Wallace
Examples
- Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- After whatever manner you answer this question, you run into inextricable difficulties. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They ran to and fro; they crowded together: some sobbed, some stumbled: the confusion was inextricable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Daedalus never wound so inextricable an error round Minotaur, as madness has woven about his imprisoned reason. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Wallace