Definition of "inextricable" []

• So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit. (adjective)
• Difficult or impossible to disentangle or untie: an inextricable tangle of threads. (adjective)
• Too involved or complicated to solve: an inextricable problem. (adjective)
• Unavoidable; inescapable: bound together by an inextricable fate. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "(And Medicare is a quite different issue inextricable from the entire problem of our screwed-up health care system.)"
• "Rather it is that these terms have become inextricable from the abhorrence or disdain in which the moral dicta defining the object as abject is articulated."
• "For the US conservative it is also inextricable from the abhorrence through which any “overly” strong woman is judged as a moral transgressor, in a vilely reactionary misogyny."