Inextricable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inextricable
       adj : not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled
             or untied; "an inextricable knot"; "inextricable unity"
             [ant: {extricable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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