cannot be escaped from; cannot be untangled; unsolvable, cannot be fixed; complicated, involved, intricate
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Inextricable Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Inevitable.
Inevitable.
(a.)
Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutIncapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
inextricable
\in*ex"tri*ca*ble\ (?), a. [l. inextricabilis: cf. f. inextricable. see in- not, and extricate.]
1. incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. lost in the wild, inextricable maze. more.
2. inevitable. [r.] "fate inextricable."
Adjective
1. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied; "an inextricable knot"; "inextricable unity"
(antonym) extricable
(similar) unresolvable
