Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to solve; having no solution: a seemingly insolvable problem.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not solvable; incapable of being solved or explained: as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
- Incapable of being paid or discharged.
- Incapable of being loosed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Impossible to solve; insoluble.
- adj. Incapable of being paid or discharged.
- adj. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation.
- adj. Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
- adj. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not easily solved
Examples
“It helps that most of us have already lived through several life-challenging events that seemed insolvable -- and we made it through!”
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“What I do know what has resulted is not unlike the seemingly insolvable palestinian israeli conflict.”
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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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Scheer: On The Vilification of Helen Thomas›
“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.”
“As to your questions, it is high time we stop holding the well being of 43 million uninsured Americans, of which 6.8 million are children, hostage to the insolvable problem of whether or not a woman, her doctor and any other trusted advisor - spiritual or otherwise - can decide under what conditions she may or maybe not seek an abortion.”
“It was a devastating problem that Carter tried to convince americans was just something we would have to learn to live with cause it was insolvable.”
Goode: Without Surge, U.S. Money May Soon Say "In Muhammad We Trust"
“It seems insolvable because no one has addressed the real, underlying issue: cultural conditioning.”
“While this demonstrates the undercurrent of racism in the collective consciousness, what is less apparent is how race and racism operate predominately at the subconscious level, which in many respects, makes it more insidious, less apparent and, seemingly insolvable.”
“It is with great disappointment I embark forward with this new online repository, only for the fact I had to abandon my beloved "typefiend" moniker and Livejournal account due to an insolvable issue with "suspicious activity" hidden somewhere deep within the recesses of years of posts and comments.”
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