Inextricable definition

ĭn-ĕkstrĭ-kə-bəl, ĭnĭk-strĭkə-bəl
That one cannot extricate oneself from.
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That cannot be disentangled or untied.
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The definition of inextricable is something that cannot be untied or something you are unable to escape from.

An example of inextricable is a tangle of hair on a long haired animal.

An example of inextricable is being stuck in a meeting for five hours that you cannot leave.

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Unavoidable; inescapable.

Bound together by an inextricable fate.

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So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible.

An inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit.

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Difficult or impossible to disentangle or untie.

An inextricable tangle of threads.

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Too involved or complicated to solve.

An inextricable problem.

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(of a knot etc) Impossible to untie or disentangle.
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(of a problem) Impossible to solve.
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(of a maze etc) Impossible to escape from.
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Origin of inextricable

  • From Middle French inextricable, from Latin inextricabilis

    From Wiktionary

Inextricable Sentence Examples

  • From this criginal task arose a second, that of affording shelter to the fragments of peoples heaped together in inextricable confusion in this corner of the earth.

  • This zoological group includes Gordian worms which are found swimming in an undulatory manner or coiling round water-weeds in ponds and puddles, or knotted together in an apparently inextricable coil.

  • Ormonde was forced to surrender Dublin to the Parliamentarians (July 1647), and the inextricable knot awaited Cromwell's sword.

  • The notion of cause is almost inextricable from the study of history tho there have been one or two thinkers who deny its relevance.

  • The captive was, however, by no means powerless; by refusing canonical institution to the French bishops he involved the ecclesiastical system of Napoleon in inextricable confusion.

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