insoluble
3
7.5
- adjective
- /ɪnˈsɑljəbl/
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insoluble
- In the end, dealing with this impending crisis of caring is akin to other practically insoluble grand-scale collective action problems such as responding to global climate change.
- insoluble problem
- insoluble dilemma
- seemingly insoluble
He says the problem may seem simple and insoluble.
- He says the problem may seem simple and insoluble.
- There are these three huge problems to be solved, and sometimes they seem insoluble.
Examples
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Even more determined than Frankfurter, he viewed none of these problems as insoluble.
Academic text (1990) -
The first concerned the perennial and apparently insoluble issue of change:
Academic text (1990) -
Do you ever trouble your head about problems that you know to be insoluble?
Blog text (19) -
Well, the problem of, of how to fit in is a permanently insoluble problem.
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The problem of her leaving was insoluble in more ways than one, some very minor but intricate nonetheless.
Fiction book (2001) -
What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.
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The newly liberated peoples of East Central Europe are, as a result, faced with an insoluble conundrum.
Academic text (1992) -
Like any problem that is intractable and seemingly insoluble, the temptation is to sideline it.
Blog text (6) -
Rights comparisons resemble religious quarrels in their regrettable tendency toward insoluble emotional conflict.
Academic text (2011) -
Many students find the concept of quantum physics to be an insoluble challenge.
Synonyms
33
8.5
Impossible to get past
22
8.7
Hard to manage, change, or control
12
6.2
Hard to control or deal with
8
5.3
Not possible to find an answer
7
6.8
Not possible to reply to in a way that convinces people
3
4.9
Impossible to repair or make work again
2
9.1
So hard that no one can get past it
2
4.9
Too strong for anyone to beat
1
8.2
Not able to be solved or settled
1
7.9
Impossible for people to solve or settle
1
8.1
No one can find an answer to it
1
8.1
Impossible to overcome or get past, like a problem you cannot solve
Not able to be fixed or changed
Impossible to understand or solve
Not able to be defeated or controlled
No one can beat or prove it wrong
Antonyms
Compounds
How Solvable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Insoluble comes from the parts in- ('not') and solvere ('to loosen' or 'to solve'), the same root you see in solve and solution. So an insoluble problem is one you cannot 'loosen' or solve.