insoluble

Speech parts

1. insoluble - Noun

2. insoluble - Adjective

3. insoluble - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.

Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.

Strong.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

indissoluble inexplicable not soluble gordian complex difficult hard impossible complicated strange obscure mysterious intricate solubility indivisible
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Antonyms

soluble clear coherent solubility accountable understandable
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Phrases with the word

practically insoluble

Examples

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Charles Darwin

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. Benjamin Disraeli

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. John Maynard Smith

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr

Close letter words and terms

insolubilization insolubilize insolubilized insolubleness insolubly insolvability