| 单词 | insoluble |
| 释义 | insoluble (once / 3074 pages) adj Let a bottle of salad dressing stand on the table for a few hours and you will notice that it has separated into layers. That's because oil is insoluble or is not capable of being dissolved. Insoluble comes from the Latin insolubilis meaning "that cannot be loosened." When a substance is insoluble, it cannot be dissolved or loosened in water. Similarly, a situation that is insoluble has no hope of being solved. When a marriage is beyond repair and cannot be fixed, it is insoluble. WORD FAMILYinsoluble: insolubility, insolubly+/insolubility: insolubilities/solubility: solubilities/soluble: insoluble, solubility, solubleness, solubly, unsoluble USAGE EXAMPLESThe difficulty, Justice Breyer suggested, was rooted in historical wrongs and was close to insoluble. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) A few have shown promise, but the receptors repel water and are insoluble, making the vaccine harder to manufacture. Science Magazine(Nov 14, 2016) Most of a vegetable’s insoluble fibre is in its peel. The Guardian(Oct 24, 2016) 1adj (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved Syn|Ant indissoluble non-water-soluble, water-insoluble not soluble in water soluble (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) alcohol-solublesoluble in alcohol dissoluble, dissolvablecapable of dissolving fat-solublesoluble in fats disintegrable, meltablecapable of melting oil-solublesoluble in oil water-solublesoluble in water 2adj admitting of no solution or explanation an insoluble doubt Syn|Ant incomprehensible, inexplicable incapable of being explained or accounted for insolvable, unresolvable, unsoluble, unsolvablenot easily solved soluble susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained explicablecapable of being explicated or accounted for answerablecapable of being answered resolvable, solvablecapable of being solved 3adj without hope of solution an insoluble problem Syn hopeless without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success |
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