inextricable
/ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəb(ə)l
/ /ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪkəb(ə)l/adjective
1Impossible to disentangle or separate: the past and the present are inextricable...
- Interpretation and attribution are also inextricable in relation to the theme of the painting.
- What's missing are the historical contexts of our mixing of cultures and technologies, and how inextricable they have always been from relations of power.
- This is the story of the inextricable link between violence, skewed gender relations and the spread of HIV / AIDS.
Synonyms
inseparable, impossible to separate, indivisible, entangled, tangled, ravelled, mixed up, confused
1.1Impossible to escape from: an inextricable situation...
- The total and violent destruction of this woman is seen as the only way out of an inextricable situation.
- The man has often shown an ability to get himself out of apparently inextricable situations and get his point across.
- It is the moral maze which is the most inextricable and confusing.
Synonyms
inescapable, impossible to escape from, unavoidable, unpreventable
Derivatives
inextricability
- And, finally, New York-based artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar will speak about the inextricability of politics and art in his work.
- He stressed the inextricability of democracy and peace.
- Marx's innovation, after all, was to have insisted upon the inextricability of politics and economy.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin inextricabilis, from in- 'not' + extricare 'unravel' (see extricate).
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