unresolvable

adjective

un·​re·​solv·​able ˌən-ri-ˈzäl-və-bəl How to pronounce unresolvable (audio)
-ˈzȯl-,
 also  -ˈzä-və-,
 or  -ˈzȯ-və-
: not able to be settled, solved, or brought to resolution : not resolvable
an unresolvable dispute
unresolvably
ˌən-ri-ˈzäl-və-blē How to pronounce unresolvable (audio)
-ˈzȯl-
 also  -ˈzä-və-
 or  -ˈzȯ-və-
adverb

Examples of unresolvable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In addition to successfully framing their arguments around such precedent, campaigners have used a legal argument that bypasses the unresolvable questions about whether these weapons could hypothetically meet discrimination or proportionality standards. Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2013 When adversarial fact-checking leads to unresolvable disagreements among team members, readers will be better able to judge how persuasive each side’s argument is and arrive at a more informed conclusion than they would if only one side’s evidence is presented. Stephen J. Ceci, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2020 In each area, the authors find governments, NGOs, and international bureaucrats caught in inherently unresolvable clashes of values and interests. Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023 As discontent grows louder in the village, the silent boy seems to hold all its unresolvable tensions. Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023 Although Kershaw wanted to play in the event, and had gotten a go-ahead from Dodgers brass to do so, his insurance problem proved unresolvable. Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023 But all interactions with wilderness now are edged with equally unresolvable tragedy, seesawing between the poetic and sublime. Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022 For all his hangups and seemingly unresolvable contradictions — for all the ways therapy and self-improvement have been neutered and subsumed into marketing copy — Boogie is optimistic about what’s happening to the people around him, and what’s still to come. Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022 These forever unresolvable questions! Thomas Gebremedhin, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1604, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unresolvable was in 1604

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“Unresolvable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unresolvable. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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