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Definition: Inextricably |
InextricablyAdverb1. In an inextricable manner; "motives inspired by Mammon were often inextricably blended with things pertaining to Caesar and to God". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inextricably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | From this moment and ever afterward, You and this blade are inextricably bound. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1938) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The cut of the sunken road was filled with horses and riders inextricably heaped together. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Qatar | The Government and ruling family are linked inextricably to Islam. (references) |
Economic History | Serbia and Montenegro | Montenegro's history is almost inextricably tied to Serbia's. (references) |
Mozambique | During the 1970s and early 1980s, Mozambique's foreign policy was inextricably linked to the struggles for majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa as well as superpower competition and the Cold War. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | In its 1999 annual report on the state of children, the Archbishop's Human Rights Office identified the growing problem of child prostitution as inextricably linked to that of trafficking in persons. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are also inextricably linked with the Far East, politically, economically, and militarily. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Inextricably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.55% of the time. "Inextricably" is used about 223 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.55% | 222 | 20,237 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 223 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inextricably | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inextricably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 密切. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | unentwirrbar (inextricable, involved), unauflösbare (indissolubly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | άλυτα, αλυτώσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kibogozhatatlanul. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 탈출 수 없. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inextricablyay сложность (bafflement, complexity, complicacy, complication, intricacy, multiplicity, sophistication), запутанность (complexity, complication, embroilment, intricacy). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Inextricably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intexricably, intextricably. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inextricably" (pronounced i'ne"kstrikublē) |
| 6 | -i k u b l ē | amicably. |
| 5 | -k u b l ē | impeccably, inexplicably, irrevocably, remarkably, unequivocably, unmistakably. |
| 4 | -u b l ē | admirably, amiably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, equitably, fashionably, favorably, feasibly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, honorably, horribly, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inseparably, interchangeably, interminably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, justifiably, knowledgeably, measurably, memorably, miserably, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, recognizably, regrettably, reliably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, suitably, terribly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, undeniably, understandably, unfavorably, unjustifiably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly. |
| 3 | -b l ē | ably, assembly, bubbly, doubly, feebly, glibly, humbly, immeasurably, nimbly, nobly, reassembly, subassembly, superbly, trembly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-i-l-n-r-t-x-y" | |
-3 letters: cabinetry, certainly, inexactly, linearity. | |
-4 letters: acerbity, bacterin, biacetyl, bilinear, binately, brainily, clarinet, inertial, interlay, irenical, literacy, rabietic. | |
-5 letters: ability, airline, albinic, albitic, anility, anticly, anxiety, article, bairnly, barytic, bilayer, biliary, blarney, byliner, cabinet, caliber, calibre, carbine, carline, central, ceratin, certain, ciliary, ciliate, citable, citrine, clarity, clayier, creatin, crinite, cyanite, exactly, exilian, inciter, inertia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-i-l-n-r-t-x-y" | |
+3 letters: inextricability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 65 78 74 72 69 63 61 62 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. . -..- - .-. .. -.-. .- -... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n e x t r i c a b l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0065 0078 0074 0072 0069 0063 0061 0062 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438071908684756967687891 |
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