immiscible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=mis=ci=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

immiscible, a. [Pref. im- not + miscible: cf. F. immiscible.].

•  Not capable of being mixed or mingled.  [1913 Webster]

  "A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; -- of two liquids; as, water and gasoline are immiscible.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

immiscible, adj. (often foll. by with) that cannot be mixed.

Derivative

immiscibility n. immiscibly adv.

Etymology

LL immiscibilis (as IN-(1), MISCIBLE)

ROGET THESAURUS

immiscible

Incoherence

N incoherence, nonadhesion, immiscibility, incoherence, looseness, laxity, relaxation, loosening, freedom, disjunction, rope of sand, nonadhesive, immiscible, incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming, disheveled, segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated &c, uncombined, noncohesive.