dissoluble

American  

[dih-sol-yuh-buhl] / dɪˈsɒl yə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being dissolved.

   tablets dissoluble in water.

2. capable of being destroyed, as through disintegration or decomposition.

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dissoluble British  

/ dɪˈsɒljʊbəl /

adjective

1. a less common word for soluble

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Other Word Forms

• dissolubility noun
• dissolubleness noun
• redissoluble adjective
• redissolubleness noun
• redissolubly adverb
• undissoluble adjective

Etymology

Origin of dissoluble

1525–35; < Latin dissolūbilis, equivalent to dissolū-, stem of dissolvere to dissolve + -bilis -ble. See dis- ¹, soluble

Example Sentences

But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

On the other hand the golden mean between an easily dissoluble relationship, more like an alliance than a federation, and a national system resulting from synoecism was practically never attained in early Greek history.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Gandharvas, after whom it is named, are singers and other musicians in Indra's heaven, who, like the apsaras, enter into unions that are not intended to be enduring, but are dissoluble at will.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

But yet in this Tryal, Eleutherius, it appears that though some of the Earth, or rather the dissoluble Salt harbour’d in it, were wasted, the main Body of the Plant consisted of Transmuted Water.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert

It instinctively desires that either the bond should be dissoluble, or that the subjects of it should be sacramentally strengthened to maintain it.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry

Related Words

• dissolved