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INSOLVABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does insolvable mean?
• INSOLVABLE (adjective)
The adjective INSOLVABLE has 1 sense:
1. not easily solved
Familiarity information: INSOLVABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not easily solved
Synonyms:
insolvable; unresolvable; unsoluble; unsolvable
Context example:
public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved
Similar:
insoluble (admitting of no solution or explanation)
Context examples
I pondered the mystery a minute or two; but finding it insolvable, and being certain it could not be of much moment, I dismissed, and soon forgot it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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