solvable
[sol-vuh-buh l]
- capable of being solved, as a problem.
- Mathematics. (of a group) having a normal series of subgroups in which successive quotient groups are Abelian.
- Archaic. soluble(def 1).
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Origin of solvable
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Examples from the Web for unsolvable
Contemporary Examples
Africa was supposedly a land of disasters, unsolvable poverty, or, worst of all, irrelevant to Americans.
Koskinen is just the latest target for GOP venting over the emails and what the agency insists was an unsolvable IT problem.
Children today seem like an unsolvable problem—an evil trick played on adults by nature itself.
Not everything gets wrapped up with a pretty bow; some mysteries are unsolvable, some victims inconsolable.
Neither is unsolvable, but neither has yet endured the full public discussion that it might in a more noticeable war.
Historical Examples
This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.
There have been unsolved mysteries, but no man may say when a crime is unsolvable.
The Grell MysteryFrank Froest
What perplexity, when we attempt to solve an unsolvable problem!
Superstition In All Ages (1732)Jean Meslier
"So that a man's life is an unsolvable riddle to all but himself," concurred the hakeem.
Tales of DestinyEdmund Mitchell
There still remained the unsolvable problem of what she was to do.
The Land of PromiseD. Torbett
solvable
- another word for soluble (def. 1)
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Word Origin and History for unsolvable
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