Search Result for "insoluble":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved;
[syn: insoluble, indissoluble]
2. admitting of no solution or explanation;
- Example: "an insoluble doubt"
3. without hope of solution;
- Example: "an insoluble problem"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insoluble \In*sol"u*ble\, a. [L. insolubilis indissoluble, that can not be loosed: cf. F. insoluble. See In- not, and Soluble, and cf. Insolvable.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water. [1913 Webster] 2. Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty. [1913 Webster] 3. Strong. "An insoluble wall." [Obs.] --Holland [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "insoluble": coherent, cohesive, enwrapped in mystery, impartible, indefinable, indiscerptible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indivisible, inexplicable, inextricable, infrangible, infusible, inseparable, insolvable, mysterious, mystic, unaccountable, undefinable, undividable, unexplainable, unified, uninterpretable, unsolvable
