inextricable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ex=tri=ca=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

inextricable, a. [L. inextricabilis: cf. F. inextricable. See In- not, and Extricate.].

•  Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.  [1913 Webster]

  "Lost in the wild, inextricable maze."  [1913 Webster]
•  Inevitable.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inextricable, adj.
1 (of a circumstance) that cannot be escaped from.
2 (of a knot, problem, etc.) that cannot be unravelled or solved.
3 intricately confused.

Derivative

inextricability n. inextricably adv.

Etymology

ME f. L inextricabilis (as IN-(1), EXTRICATE)

THESAURUS

inextricable

aground, anchored, caught, chained, enwrapped in mystery, fast, fastened, fixed, grounded, held, high and dry, impacted, indefinable, inexplicable, insoluble, insolvable, irreducible, jammed, moored, mysterious, mystic, packed, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, tethered, tied, transfixed, unaccountable, undefinable, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unsolvable, wedged

ROGET THESAURUS

inextricable

Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.

Complexity

N complexity, complexness, complexus, complication, implication, intricacy, intrication, perplexity, network, labyrinth, wilderness, jungle, involution, raveling, entanglement, coil, sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels, kink, gnarl, knarl, webwork, difficulty, gnarled, knarled, complex, complexed, intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable, irreducible.

Impossibility

N impossibility, what cannot, what can never be, sour grapes, hopelessness, impossible, not possible, absurd, contrary to reason, unlikely, unreasonable, incredible, beyond the bounds of reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility, from which reason recoils, visionary, inconceivable, prodigious, unimaginable, inimaginable, unthinkable, impracticable unachievable, unfeasible, infeasible, insuperable, unsurmountable, insurmountable, unattainable, unobtainable, out of reach, out of the question, not to be had, not to be thought of, beyond control, desperate, incompatible, inaccessible, uncomeatable, impassable, impervious, innavigable, inextricable, self- contradictory, out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond one's reach, beyond one's grasp, too much for, ultra crepidam, the grapes are sour, non possumus, non nostrum tantas componere lites, look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin, il a le mer +a boire.