inseparable
See also: inséparable
English
Etymology
From Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.ˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/
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Adjective
inseparable (comparative more inseparable, superlative most inseparable)
- Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
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Antonyms
- separable (able to be separated)
- unannexable (unable to be annexed)
- uncombinable (unable to be combined)
Translations
unable to be separated
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Noun
inseparable (plural inseparables)
- Something that cannot be separated from something else.
- 2002, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (page 129)
- 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?
- 2002, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (page 129)
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin īnsēparābilis.
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