irresolvable
[ir-i-zol-vuh-buh l]
- not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
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Origin of irresolvable
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baffling, difficult, impenetrable, indecipherable, inexplicable, inextricable, obscure, unaccountable, unfathomable, unresolved, unsolvable, mystifying, irresolvable, unconcluded, unsolvedExamples from the Web for irresolvable
Contemporary Examples
Is it a puzzle to be solved, or is the ambiguity meant to stand, irresolvable?
Historical Examples
In sex are we always to be faced with an irresolvable tangle of disharmonies?
The Truth About WomanC. Gasquoine Hartley
Irresolvable, ir-re-zolv′-a-bl, adj. that cannot be resolved.
For the twentieth time, this irresolvable problem troubled him.
Against The GrainJoris-Karl Huysmans
The nebulae of his spirit are resolved or shown to be irresolvable.
Birds and PoetsJohn Burroughs
The perplexing thing about life is the irresolvable complexity of reality, of things and relations alike.
Tono BungayH. G. Wells
irresolvable
- not able to be resolved into parts or elements
- not able to be solved; insoluble
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Word Origin and History for irresolvable
adj.
1650s, from ir- + resolvable. Related: Irresolvably.
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