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Unresolvable

Definition: Unresolvable

Unresolvable

Adjective

1. Not easily solved; "an apparantly insolvable problem"; "public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved"- C.L.Jones.

2. Not capable of being resolved; "unresolvable confusion".

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

Date "unresolvable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references)


Synonyms: Unresolvable

Synonyms: insolvable (adj), unsoluble (adj), unsolvable (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unresolvable

English words defined with "unresolvable": double bind. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unresolvable": residuite. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unresolvable

DomainTitle

Books

  • Feminists, liberalism, and morality : the unresolvable triangle (reference)

  • The Unresolvable Plot (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unresolvable

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Slovenia

Should a labor dispute prove unresolvable in these fora, it initially is heard by district-level administrative courts and may be appealed to the Supreme or Constitutional Court, depending on the nature of the complaint. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unresolvable

"Unresolvable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unresolvable" is used about 13 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%1397,576

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

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Modern Translation: Unresolvable

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

German

  

unlösbar (indissoluble, inextricable, insoluble, irreconcilable, unanswerable, unsolvable, unsolvably). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esolvableunray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unresolvable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-v"

-2 letters: resolvable, unsolvable, vulnerable.

-3 letters: aleurones, resoluble, unlovable.

-4 letters: absolver, aleurone, aleurons, allovers, alveolus, aureoles, bluenose, bullnose, earlobes, enablers, enslaver, labelers, levulose, loveable, nebulose, nervules, neurosal, nouvelle, novellas, overable, overalls, oversale, oversell, ravenous, relabels, reusable, revalues, revenual, rubellas, rubeolas, seaborne, servable, solvable, sourball, sublevel, sullener, unlevels, unravels, venulose, verbenas.

-5 letters: absolve, aeneous, aerobes, aleuron, allover.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unresolvable


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

55 6E 72 65 73 6F 6C 76 61 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)

..-    -.    .-.    .    ...    ---    .-..    ...-    .-    -...    .-..    .

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

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

01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101100 01110110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#111 &#108 &#118 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 0073 006F 006C 0076 0061 0062 006C 0065

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

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

558084718581788867687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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