inseparable
See also: inséparable
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.ˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
inseparable (comparative more inseparable, superlative most inseparable)
- Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 1:
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 271:
- This detail is one of the reasons which made a single, modern signalbox and the marshalling yard inseparable features in the modernisation of the Perth facilities. A central control point rather than 13 individual boxes, was essential to integrate with other movements the greatly increased flow of freight traffic through the station area.
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Synonyms
Antonyms
- separable (able to be separated)
- unannexable (unable to be annexed)
- uncombinable (unable to be combined)
Translations
unable to be separated
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Noun
inseparable (plural inseparables)
- Something that cannot be separated from something else.
- 2002, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (page 129)
- Jayanta does so in answering an opponent who declares that the very idea of a relation between two inseparables is self-contradictory. How can inseparability and relation be reconciled?
- 2002, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (page 129)
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin īnsēparābilis.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin īnsēparābilis.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “inseparable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inseparable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “inseparable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inseparable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin īnsēparābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /insepaˈɾable/ [ĩn.se.paˈɾa.β̞le]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: in‧se‧pa‧ra‧ble
Derived terms
Further reading
- “inseparable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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