INEXTRICABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inextricable mean? 

• INEXTRICABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INEXTRICABLE has 1 sense:

1. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied

  Familiarity information: INEXTRICABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXTRICABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied

Context example:

inextricable unity

Similar:

unresolvable (not capable of being resolved)

Antonym:

extricable (capable of being extricated)

 Context examples 

" was demanded confusedly on all hands. But for the moonlight they would have been in complete darkness. They ran to and fro; they crowded together: some sobbed, some stumbled: the confusion was inextricable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)