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INDISSOLUBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indissoluble mean? 

INDISSOLUBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INDISSOLUBLE has 2 senses:

1. (of a substance) incapable of being dissolvedplay

2. used of decisions and contractsplay

  Familiarity information: INDISSOLUBLE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INDISSOLUBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a substance) incapable of being dissolved

Synonyms:

indissoluble; insoluble

Similar:

non-water-soluble; water-insoluble (not soluble in water)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of decisions and contracts

Similar:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)


 Context examples 


I knew by her stony eye—opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears—that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: only a sense of mortification.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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