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Insolvable definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSOLV'ABLE, a. [L. in and solvo, to loosen or dissolve.]
1. Not to be cleared of difficulty or uncertainty; not to be solved or explained; not admitting solution or explication; as an insolvable problem or difficulty.
2. That cannot be paid or discharged.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not easily solved; "an apparantly insolvable problem"; "public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved"- C.L.Jones [syn: insolvable, unsoluble, unsolvable, unresolvable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1693 admitting no solution <an apparently insolvable problem> • insolvably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. = INSOLUBLE.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insolvable In*solv"a*ble, a. 1. Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. --I. Watts. 2. Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts. 3. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. ``Bands insolvable.'' --Pope.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Inexplicable, that cannot be solved, not to be explained.