Crossword clues for inextricable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inextricable \In*ex"tri*ca*ble\, a. [L. inextricabilis: cf. F. inextricable. See In- not, and Extricate.]
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Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
Lost in the wild, inextricable maze.
--Blackmore. Inevitable. [R.] ``Fate inextricable.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a knot etc English) impossible to untie or disentangle 2 (context of a problem English) impossible to solve 3 (context of a maze etc English) impossible to escape from
WordNet
adj. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied; "an inextricable knot"; "inextricable unity" [ant: extricable]
Usage examples of "inextricable".
In the midst of this inextricable mass of plants and sea weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, green, red, and blue.
This inextricable bias appears even to influence his manner of composition.
We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin, Even as a vulture and a snake outspent Drop, twisted in inextricable fight, Into a shoreless sea.
Since man posits himself in the field of positive knowledge only in so far as he speaks, works, and lives, can his history ever be anything but the inextricable nexus of different times, which are foreign to him and heterogeneous in respect of one another?
The Deja Usenet search technology, programming code, and systems are inextricable and almost indistinguishable from the Usenet archive itself.
To sum up, I believe that species come to be tolerably well-defined objects, and do not at any one period present an inextricable chaos of varying and intermediate links: firstly, because new varieties are very slowly formed, for variation is a very slow process, and natural selection can do nothing until favourable variations chance to occur, and until a place in the natural polity of the country can be better filled by some modification of some one or more of its inhabitants.
We shall never, probably, disentangle the inextricable web of affinities between the members of any one class.
Who, after a great disaster, has not looked back with wonder at his inconceivable obtuseness of understanding, that could not perceive the many minute threads with which fate weaves the inextricable net of our destinies, until he is inmeshed completely in it?
In fact, the Victoria was resuming a more northerly route, and on the morning of the 20th she was passing over an inextricable network of channels, torrents, and streams, in fine, the whole complicated tangle of the Niger's tributaries.
This precious matter, often confused with other polypi, formed then the inextricable plots called “macciota,” and on which I noticed several beautiful specimens of pink coral.
This precious matter, often confounded with other polypi, formed then the inextricable plots called "macciota," and on which I noticed several beautiful specimens of pink coral.
But now Shama got invitations in her own right and during the Hindu wedding season she borrowed deeply from the rent money, committing herself to almost inextricable entanglement with her accounts, to buy presents, usually water-sets.
So cunningly did Conrad contrive that situation, with its inextricable mingling of concrete right and abstract wrong, that no man can say what he would have done, had he been in Lord Jim's place.