Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to solve; having no solution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not solvable; incapable of being solved or explained: as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
- Incapable of being paid or discharged.
- Incapable of being loosed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation.
- adjective Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
- adjective Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Impossible tosolve ;insoluble . - adjective Incapable of being
paid ordischarged . - adjective Not capable of being
loosed ordisentangled ;inextricable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not easily solved
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Examples
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It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!
Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future Robert Levithan 2012
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It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!
Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future Robert Levithan 2012
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It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!
Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future Robert Levithan 2012
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Despite millennia of research and rumination, only recently has the humanity attained the necessary technological and intellectual stage to successfully tackle this seemingly insolvable conundrum.
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!
Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future Robert Levithan 2012
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It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!
Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future Robert Levithan 2012
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It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!
Robert Levithan: Totally Committed/Completely Unattached: Reinventing a Future Robert Levithan 2012
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What I do know what has resulted is not unlike the seemingly insolvable palestinian israeli conflict.
Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010
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What I don't understand is why this basic respect for human rights doesn't apply to the people who call themselves Palestinian and who are illegal immigrants not as a matter of birth but only in the political calculus of those who find their indigenous presence at best an inconvenience and at worst an insolvable threat.
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Suspecting an insolvable task, Kennedy whose own political base in the tobacco-rich South was thin quickly assigned it to his surgeon general, Luther Terry.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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