The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insolvable \In*solv"a*ble\, a.
Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
--I. Watts.Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. ``Bands insolvable.''
--Pope.
Wiktionary
a. 1 impossible to solve; insoluble. 2 Incapable of being pay or discharged. 3 Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
WordNet
adj. not easily solved; "an apparantly insolvable problem"; "public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved"- C.L.Jones [syn: unsoluble, unsolvable, unresolvable]
Usage examples of "insolvable".
It is a most interesting piece of scientific history, which shows how the problem which Biot in 1821 pronounced insolvable was in the course of a few years practically solved, with a success equal to that which Dollond had long before obtained with the telescope.