inseparable
Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
Adjective
- Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
- People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly...
- 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...
- =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...
Synonyms: unseparable
Antonyms: separable unannexable uncombinable
Origin
From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
Forms
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Noun
- Something that cannot be separated from something else.
- 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...