Insoluble
adjective
Can't be solved or answered.
The mystery remained insoluble.
Often appears as...
- insoluble problem
- insoluble puzzle
adjective
Can't be dissolved in a liquid, especially water.
Fat is insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents.
Often appears as...
- insoluble in water
- insoluble substances
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Can't be solved or answered.
The mystery remained insoluble.
Often appears as...
- insoluble problem
- insoluble puzzle
adjective
Can't be dissolved in a liquid, especially water.
Fat is insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents.
Often appears as...
- insoluble in water
- insoluble substances
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Abstract Usage
Used to describe problems or mysteries where no clear answer is possible.
Some philosophical questions are considered insoluble.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
It's often used metaphorically to express difficulty in finding solutions.
The conflict between the two parties appears to be insoluble.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can convey a sense of frustration or hopelessness about a situation.
Facing an insoluble dilemma, she felt overwhelmed.
Pro Tip 1/3Abstract Usage
Used to describe problems or mysteries where no clear answer is possible.
Some philosophical questions are considered insoluble.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
It's often used metaphorically to express difficulty in finding solutions.
The conflict between the two parties appears to be insoluble.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can convey a sense of frustration or hopelessness about a situation.
Facing an insoluble dilemma, she felt overwhelmed.
Pro Tip 1/3Abstract Usage
Used to describe problems or mysteries where no clear answer is possible.
Some philosophical questions are considered insoluble.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
It's often used metaphorically to express difficulty in finding solutions.
The conflict between the two parties appears to be insoluble.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can convey a sense of frustration or hopelessness about a situation.
Facing an insoluble dilemma, she felt overwhelmed.
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What’s the big deal with...
here are some questions you can ask, and the well-informed answers that your friend, being a reasonable individual making educated dietary choices, and by no means just following the latest diet craze, will tell you. What is gluten? Gluten is an insoluble protein composite
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Your brain hallucinates...
So as with life, so with consciousness. Once we start explaining its properties in terms of things happening inside brains and bodies, the apparently insoluble mystery of what consciousness is should start to fade away. At least that's the plan. So let's get started.
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It’s the Diseases We Get...
in aging animals like worms have surprising similarities to serious diseases seen in ageing humans we've shown recently that during normal aging in worms there is an accumulation of insoluble proteins and we believe this
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What’s the big deal with...
here are some questions you can ask, and the well-informed answers that your friend, being a reasonable individual making educated dietary choices, and by no means just following the latest diet craze, will tell you. What is gluten? Gluten is an insoluble protein composite
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
So as with life, so with consciousness. Once we start explaining its properties in terms of things happening inside brains and bodies, the apparently insoluble mystery of what consciousness is should start to fade away. At least that's the plan. So let's get started.
Video examples
It’s the Diseases We Get...
in aging animals like worms have surprising similarities to serious diseases seen in ageing humans we've shown recently that during normal aging in worms there is an accumulation of insoluble proteins and we believe this
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Kofi Annan
Ghanaian Statesman
Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French Physicist
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
American Theologian
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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James A. Michener
American Novelist
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
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Henry Adams
American Historian
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Kofi Annan
Ghanaian Statesman
Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.
Quote examples
Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Quote examples
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French Physicist
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
American Theologian
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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James A. Michener
American Novelist
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
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Henry Adams
American Historian
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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