Inseparable Meaning
/inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjUnable to be separated; bound together permanently.
nounSomething that cannot be separated from something else.
Sentence Examples
Power and money are inseparable.
Good health is inseparable from exercise and moderation.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The two twin brothers were ____ and did everything together from morning to night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two best friends have been ____ since they met on their very first day of kindergarten ten years ago.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 his form."
— 1874, Thomas Hardy, “Coming Home—A Cry”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 99–100:
"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 then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 1:
"=This detail is one of the reasons which made a single, modern signalbox and the marshalling yard inseparable features in the modernisation of the Perth facilities. A central control point rather than 13 individual boxes, was essential to integrate with other movements the greatly increased flow of freight traffic through the station area."
— 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 271:
"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?"
— 2002, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, page 129:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The two twin brothers were ____ and did everything together from morning to night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two best friends have been ____ since they met on their very first day of kindergarten ten years ago.