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INDISSOLUBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indissoluble mean?
• INDISSOLUBLE (adjective)
The adjective INDISSOLUBLE has 2 senses:
1. (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved
2. used of decisions and contracts
Familiarity information: INDISSOLUBLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a substance) incapable of being dissolved
Synonyms:
indissoluble; insoluble
Similar:
non-water-soluble; water-insoluble (not soluble in water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of decisions and contracts
Similar:
lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)
Context examples
I knew by her stony eye—opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears—that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: only a sense of mortification.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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