GDict

inseparable

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adj/inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/
  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
    • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had th
noun/inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/
  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?

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