Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
- incapable of being disentangled, undone, loosed, or solved: an inextricable knot.
- hopelessly intricate, involved, or perplexing: inextricable confusion.
adjective
- not able to be escaped froman inextricable dilemma
- not able to be disentangled, etcan inextricable knot
- extremely involved or intricate
early 15c., from Latin inextricabilis “that cannot be disentangled,” from in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + extricare (see extricate). Related: Inextricably.