Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to resolve.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not resoluble; incapable of being resolved into elements or parts; indissoluble.
- Incapable of being released or relieved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being dissolved or resolved into parts; insoluble.
- adjective obsolete Incapable of being relieved or assisted.
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- adjective
difficult if notimpossible toresolve ;irresolvable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Instead, he landed it with a system in total disorder, caught up intricately in an irresoluble bureaucratic turf war and unfathomable confusion in its operation.
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In the face of the resistance of some members of the community and of certain questions that seem irresoluble, he or she can be tempted to cave in and to consider every effort for improving the situation useless.
Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008
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He proposed that if we do this, metaphysical disputes that appear to be irresoluble will be dissolved.
Pragmatism Hookway, Christopher 2008
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But the most likely upshot is that they will go back into hiding for the foreseeable future – a victim of irresoluble legal and moral controversy.
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Kant's attempt, however, entails an irresoluble difficulty.
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi di Giovanni, George 2005
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The paradox is irresoluble: the less one culture communicates with another, the less likely they are to be corrupted, one by the other; but, on the other hand, the less likely it is, in such conditions, that the respective emissaries of these cultures will be able to seize the richness and significance of their diversity.
A Hero of our Time Sontag, Susan 1963
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The mathematician knows, that, beyond that form of his equation containing an actual mis-step, or a positively irresoluble expression, all subsequent forms or values involving that step or expression are vitiated, and the results they seem to show substantially worthless.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Ó Maria answered, she had no fears on that head, she knew their hearts were united by such irresoluble ties, as neither time nor absence could effect.
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Himself were Possessors of the famous Liquor, _Alkahest_, which for its great power in resolving Bodies irresoluble by Vulgar Fires, he somewhere seems to call _Ignis Gehennæ_.
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Fire, and in subliming Vessels they rise together as one Salt, which seems in such Vessels irresoluble by Fire alone.
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