Inextricable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit.
  • adj. Difficult or impossible to disentangle or untie: an inextricable tangle of threads.
  • adj. Too involved or complicated to solve: an inextricable problem.
  • adj. Unavoidable; inescapable: bound together by an inextricable fate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. impossible to untie or disentangle
  • adj. impossible to solve
  • adj. impossible to escape from
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure
  • adj. Inevitable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not extricable; that cannot be freed from intricacy or perplexity; not permitting extrication.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied
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