inseparable

Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.

Adjective

  1. 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

more inseparable most inseparable

Derived

inseparableness inseparably

Noun

  1. 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...

Forms

inseparables