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Insolvable   Listen
adjective
Insolvable  adj.  
1.
Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
2.
Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
3.
Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands insolvable."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Insolvable" Quotes from Famous Books



... (pardon me as I am not a violet) could look better, also could look worse; consequently I consider myself entitled to be placed between hell and paradise—to have things as one wishes is an insolvable problem—that era has ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane

... consumed over theories to account for it. Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafes at nightfall. This applause of the "rebel" air in a Northern city does puzzle a little; but it is not insolvable. The war with Spain, many years' generous mint and watermelon crops, a few long-shot winners at the New Orleans race-track, and the brilliant banquets given by the Indiana and Kansas citizens who compose the North Carolina Society have made the South rather a "fad" in Manhattan. Your ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry

... of Morgan bring, moreover, other interesting facts to light. Although the "pairing family" of the Iroquois starts in insolvable contradiction with the terms of consanguinity in use among them, it turns out that, as late as the first half of the 19th Century, there existed on the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) a family-form that actually ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel



Words linked to "Insolvable" :   unresolvable, unsolvable, unsoluble, insoluble



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