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Indissoluble

Definitions: Indissoluble

Indissoluble

Adjective

1. Not soluble.

2. Used of decisions and contracts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "indissoluble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references)

Etymology: Indissoluble \In*dis"so*lu*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression indissolubilis: compare to the French expression indissoluble. See In- not, and Dissoluble, and compare to Indissolvable.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Indissoluble

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Density

Indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

Junction

Firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved ; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable.

Stability

Indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible; indissoluble, indissolvable; indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous; insusceptible, insusceptible of change.

Whole

Indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Indissoluble

English words defined with "indissoluble": Indisdolubility, Indissolubly, Indissolvable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "indissoluble": Marriage Knot. (references)
Etymologies containing "indissoluble": Indissolvable, insoluble. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Indissoluble" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (indissoluble, unsolvable).

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Familiar Quotations: Indissoluble

AuthorQuotation

Charles E. Norton

It is perhaps the highest distinction of the Greeks that they recognized the indissoluble connection of beauty and goodness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Indissoluble

"Indissoluble" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indissoluble" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2865,706

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Indissoluble

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  bond indissoluble

5

  indissoluble

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Indissoluble

Language Translations for "indissoluble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i qëndrueshëm (abiding, consistent, constant, durable, enduring, evergreen, fast, firm, Hardy, lasting, lingering, perdurable, permanent, persistent, resistant, settled, stabilized, stable, steady, surefooted, unalterable, unswerving), i pazbërtyyeshëm, i patretshëm (indigestible, infusible, insoluble), i paprishëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لا فكاك منه, ‏غير قابل للذوبان (insoluble), ‏سرمدي (eternal, immortal, perennial, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вечен (constant, continual, endless, eternal, everlasting, imperishable, incessant, interminable, never ending, perdurable, perennial, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unfading, unperishing), нерушим, неразтворим (insoluble, irresolvable), неразложим (indecomposable, irresolvable, unanalysable), дълготраен (chronic, lasting, long-lived, permanent). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不解 (not understand), 可溶解 (Dissoluble, soluble). (various references)

   

Czech

  

stálý (constant, durable, enduring, equable, eternal, fast, firm, invariable, perennial, permanent, protracted, regular, sessile, stable, standing, static, stationary, steady, unchangeable). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onoplosbaar (insoluble). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پایدار (Constant, Fast, Inexhaustible, Permanent, Resistant, Stanch, Undying, Unfailing, Unflinching), منحل نشدنی , ماندگار (Immanent, Indelible, Settler), ناگداز (Irresoluble), حل نشدنی (Inextricable, Insolubility, Insoluble, Irresolvable), غیرقابل حل , تجزیه ناپذیر (Irresolvable), اب نشدنی (Irresoluble), بهم نخوردنی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

purkamaton, hajoamaton. (various references)

   

French

  

insoluble (insoluble, intractable), indissoluble. (various references)

   

German

  

unauflösbar. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδιάλυτοσ (insoluble, undiluted). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא מסיס (insoluble), לא פריק. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tartós (chronic, durable, enduring, hickory, keeping, lasting, perdurable, permanent, solid, sound, stable, standing, staple, substantive, to dye sg in grain, to last, well knit), oldhatatlan (insoluble), felbonthatatlan (indecomposable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

indissolubile. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

용해시킬 수 없". (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuscarreydagh (inseparable), neulheieagh (indigestible, insoluble, irresolvable). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

uoppløselig (insoluble), uløselig (inextricable, insoluble). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indissolubleay

   

Portuguese

  

indissolúvel (insoluble), dogma incontestável. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

indisolubil (indissolubly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нерастворимый (infusible, insoluble), неразрывный, прочный (durable, endurable, enduring, fail-safe, fast, firm, reliable, resistant, rugged, serviceable, sound, stable, stout, strong, tenable, tough). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nerastvorljiv (insoluble). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

indisoluble, que dura. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

olöslig (inextricable, infusible, insoluble, irresolvable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), erimez (insoluble), daimi (constant, endless, imprescriptible, invariable, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, standing), bozulmaz (imperishable, incorruptible, indefectible), ayrılmaz (fast, inseparable), ayrışmaz, çözünmez (insoluble). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нерозривний, незруйнований (undefeated). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không tan được, không ho tan được không thể chia cắt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Indissoluble

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

insolubilis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Indissoluble

Derivations

Words beginning with "indissoluble": indissolubleness, indissolublenesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Indissoluble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indissolable. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Indissoluble"

Words rhyming with "indissoluble" (pronounced 'In*dis"so*lu*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Indissoluble

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-u"

-1 letter: solubilised.

-2 letters: dissoluble, insolubles, solubilise.

-3 letters: boundless, bullnoses, delusions, illusions, insoluble, subsoiled.

-4 letters: bedouins, billions, bodiless, boldness, bullions, bullnose, delusion, dullness, elisions, elusions, idolises, illusion, insouled, isolines, libelous, lionised, lionises, loudness, nubilose, oiliness, sinusoid, solubles, sublines, unbilled, unilobed, unsoiled.

-5 letters: bedouin, beduins, bilious, billies, billion, billons, bindles, blissed, blondes, bloused, blouses, bolides, boluses, bonuses, boulles.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: bloodguiltiness.

 

+4 letters: indissolubleness.

 

+5 letters: bloodguiltinesses, indissolubilities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Indissoluble


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 64 69 73 73 6F 6C 75 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01101100 01110101 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#115 &#111 &#108 &#117 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0064 0069 0073 0073 006F 006C 0075 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

438070758585817887687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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