inseparable

B2
US /inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/
adj noun Freq #16833

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    not capable of being separated

    inseparable pieces of rock

  2. 2
    adj

    Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.

    People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.

  3. 3
    noun

    Something that cannot be separated from something else.

    Jayanta does so in answering an opponent who declares that the very idea of a relation between two inseparables is self-contradictory. How can inseparability and relation be reconciled?

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.

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Synonyms
2 adj · unable to be separated;... unseparable

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