inextricable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   so closely connected or entangled that separation is impossible

   The two legal questions became inextricable once the evidence was combined.

2. 2
   adj

   impossible to escape from, solve, or understand

   One false assumption led the committee into an inextricable confusion.

Common collocations

• inextricable knot Adjective + noun

Through Middle French inextricable from Latin inextricabilis, 'that cannot be disentangled,' formed from in- ('not') + extricabilis, from extricare ('to disentangle or free'). Latin tricae meant hindrances or perplexities, which helps explain the later extension from physical tangles to insoluble problems.

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