INEXTRICABLE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

inextricable

adjective

Definition of inextricable

as in difficult

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Recent Examples of inextricable Unlike a traditional piece of writing, or even a blog post, a cell phone novel’s fragmented storytelling was inextricable from its three-inch screen and on-the-go audience. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026 Amid the inextricable trauma of losing her 18-year-old child, the mother had feared that traditional funeral customs might be handled differently because of the manner in which her daughter died. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 The feeling in South Korea is that this disappointment was inextricable from the South Africa defeat. — Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 29 June 2026 Today’s best design is as Instagrammable as ever, but simultaneously demands a less fleeting consideration, often suggesting a more permanent, inextricable link with the environment. — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for inextricable

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inextricable

Adjective

The losses linked to the demise of these groups are difficult to quantify, but participants and advocates say the impacts will reverberate across federal agencies for years.

— Katia Riddle, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
Ground surveys can provide more detailed information at a particular site, but covering an entire subway corridor that way would be difficult.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of difficult

Adjective

There’s also a brief and inexplicable detour to Murray Hill and a Williamsburg-y Bushwick loft to remind us of simpler times.

— Nora DeLigter, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Then again, so is this inexplicable two-and-a-half-year stretch of low-risk, juiceless attacking hockey that Pettersson has just endured.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of inexplicable

Adjective

During the day, the menu reclaims fry bread, a dish with a knotty history among Indigenous groups, as they were forced to adapt to US government rations when forcibly displaced from their homes.

— The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
The following tracks only get knottier and denser, but Sweeping Promises never stops setting primal immediacy against granular precision and letting the sparks fly.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of knotty

Adjective

Both minerals bind together in the digestive tract to form insoluble calcium oxalate, which naturally prevents the body from absorbing essential calcium.

— Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 18 Aug. 2026
Fiber, including both soluble and insoluble fiber, play critical roles in gut health.

— Jillian Kubala, HEALTH, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of insoluble

Adjective

Things take a dark turn, however, after a series of unexplainable deaths draw Hal and John to a small town in Nebraska.

— Matt Minton, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
That central theme, the ongoing search for truth and meaning in a sometimes mysterious and unexplainable universe, reflects Carter's own views.

— Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of unexplainable

Adjective

Elwood told his boss – Peter Brown, a former member of the Beatles’ inner circle and the founder of Brown Lloyd James – that the assignment was impossible.

— Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Such components can benefit from additive manufacturing because the technology lets engineers create geometries that would be difficult or impossible to produce with traditional manufacturing methods.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of impossible

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inextricable

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