indecomposable

[in-dee-kuhm-poh-zuh-buhl]

adjective

1. incapable of being decomposed.

Other Word Forms

• indecomposableness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of indecomposable¹

First recorded in 1805–15; in- ³ + decomposable ( def. )

Example Sentences

Unlike your town’s landfill, it doesn’t contain indecomposable plastic items or toxic chemicals.

From Washington Post

Our previous reasoning would lead us nevertheless to guess that this sense is not, in its nature, a simple and indecomposable faculty.

From Project Gutenberg

Indecomposable, in-de-kom-pōz′a-bl, adj. that cannot be decomposed.

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Our will may be a primary initiating cause or force, as unexplainable, as unreducible, as indecomposable, as impossible if you choose, but as real to our belief as the œternitas a parte ante.

From Project Gutenberg

El�ements, the simplest constituent principles or parts of anything; in a special sense, the ultimate indecomposable constituents of any kind of matter.

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