inextricable

From Middle French inextricable, from Latin inextricabilis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪkəbl/, /ˌɪnɛkˈstrɪkəbl/, /ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəbl/

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inextricable (not comparable)

1. (of a knot etc) Impossible to untie or disentangle.
   • 2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:

     And when it comes to far-right anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews is inextricable from opposition to socialism.

2. (of a problem) Impossible to solve.
3. (of a maze etc) Impossible from which to escape.

   Antonym: extricable

Learned borrowing from Latin inextrīcābilis.

• IPA^(key): /i.nɛk.stʁi.kabl/

inextricable (plural inextricables)

1. inextricable, impossible to disentangle

   Near-synonym: insoluble

• inextricablement

• “inextricable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ineɡstɾiˈkable/ [i.neɣ̞s.t̪ɾiˈka.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: i‧nex‧tri‧ca‧ble

inextricable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inextricables)

1. inextricable

• “inextricable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024