extricable

[ek-stri-kuh-buhl, ik-strik-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being extricated.

Other Word Forms

• nonextricable adjective
• nonextricably adverb
• unextricable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of extricable¹

1615–25; < Latin extric ( āre ) ( extricate ) + -able

Example Sentences

We know that the electrical, chemical brain is not extricable from the subjective mind.

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The key is not letting them define, discount, or dissuade you from the superb aspects of your sex life, or even seeing them as extricable from those.

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Well worn, it had also been well used, and when deftly handled, had still some delights extricable.

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A few facts only of any interest are extricable.

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