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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective difficult if not impossible to resolve; irresolvable

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin irresolūbilis : in-, not; see in– + resolvere, resolūt-, to untie; see resolve.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From ir- + resoluble.

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