inextricable
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
inextricable
adj 1: not permitting extrication; incapable of being
disentangled or untied; "an inextricable knot";
"inextricable unity" [ant: {extricable}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inextricable \In*ex"tri*ca*ble\, a. [L. inextricabilis: cf. F.
inextricable. See {In-} not, and {Extricate}.]
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1. Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled;
hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an
inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
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Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. --Blackmore.
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2. Inevitable. [R.] "Fate inextricable." --Milton.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "inextricable":
aground, anchored, caught, chained, enwrapped in mystery, fast,
fastened, fixed, grounded, held, high and dry, impacted,
indefinable, inexplicable, insoluble, insolvable, irreducible,
jammed, moored, mysterious, mystic, packed, stranded, stuck,
stuck fast, tethered, tied, transfixed, unaccountable, undefinable,
unexplainable, uninterpretable, unsolvable, wedged
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