insoluble

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=sol=u=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

insoluble, a. [L. insolubilis indissoluble, that can not be loosed: cf. F. insoluble. See In- not, and Soluble, and cf. Insolvable.].

•  Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.  [1913 Webster]
•  Strong.  Holland  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

insoluble, adj.
1 incapable of being solved.
2 incapable of being dissolved.

Derivative

insolubility n. insolubilize v.tr. (also -ise). insolubleness n. insolubly adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF insoluble or L insolubilis (as IN-(1), SOLUBLE)

THESAURUS

insoluble

coherent, cohesive, enwrapped in mystery, impartible, indefinable, indiscerptible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indivisible, inexplicable, inextricable, infrangible, infusible, inseparable, insolvable, mysterious, mystic, unaccountable, undefinable, undividable, unexplainable, unified, uninterpretable, unsolvable

ROGET THESAURUS

insoluble

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

Unintelligibility

N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.