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单词 unsolvable
释义

unsolvableadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈsɒlvəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈsɑlvəb(ə)l/
Etymology: un- prefix1 1b
1. Insolvent. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [adjective] > insolvent
insolventa1626
non-solvent1631
insolvable1648
unsolvable1656
insolutive1668
1656 A. Cowley Misc. Pref., in Poems I have the real excuse of the honestest sort of Bankrupts, which is, to have been made Unsolvable..by some notorious accidents and publike disasters.
2. Insoluble.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [adjective] > incapable of being solved
insoluble1393
unresolvable1604
inextricable1613
indissolvable1637
unriddleable1647
irresolvable1660
unsolvible1664
insolvable1693
unsolvable1821
hen-and-egg1855
indissoluble1868
irresoluble1868
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Unsolvable (not so common a spelling), unsolvible.]
1821 J. Q. Adams Rep. Weights & Meas. 79 The problem, hitherto unsolvable to man, of squaring the circle.
1865 Reader 4 Feb. 130/1 He alone has produced paintings, before which we stand..as though they were unsolvable enigmas.
1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) ii. 43 Who had assumed the name..and hidden the receipt in our butler's pantry were unsolvable mysteries.
absolute.1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 6 Human longing to solve the unsolvable.

Derivatives

unˈsolvableness n.
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1884 Nonconformist & Independent 10 Jan. 30/1 The question is depressing to the spirits in its very unsolvableness.
ˌunsolvaˈbility n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [noun] > quality of being solvable > lack of
insolubleness1672
insolvableness1727
insolvabilitya1834
insolubility1837
unsolvability1947
1947 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 12 7 They become decision problems of recursively enumerable sets of positive integers of the same degree of unsolvability as the complete set K.
1979 Sci. Amer. May 131/1 One approach for circumventing unsolvability is to limit the kinds of statements given to the computer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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