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inseparable

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl//

Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.

adjective

  1. 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 bearing inseparable from his form.

    =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.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.

noun

  1. 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?

Forms

plural
inseparables
comparative
more inseparable
superlative
most inseparable
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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