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8 words match “INEXTRICABLE”

INEXTRICABLE a. 2 definitions
g extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.
INEXTRICABLENESS n.
The state of being inextricable.
EMBRANGLE v.
To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.
GORDIAN a.
ing to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable. Gordian knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great…
INEXTRICABLY adv.
In an inextricable manner.
INSOLVABLE a.
Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands insolvable." Pope.
LABYRINTH n.
An inextricable or bewildering difficulty. I' the maze and winding labyrinths o' the world. Denham.
UNEXTRICABLE a.
Not extricable; inextricable. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.