inseparable

See also: inséparable

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- ‎ separable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/

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Adjective

inseparable (comparative more inseparable, superlative most inseparable)

1. Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.

   Synonym: unseparable

   Antonyms: separable, unannexable, uncombinable

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, “Coming Home—A Cry”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 99–100:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 271:

     =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.

Translations

unable to be separated

• Armenian: անբաժան (hy) (anbažan)
• Asturian: inseparable
• Belarusian: неаддзе́льны (njeaddzjélʹny), неразлу́чны (njerazlúčny) (of couples, friends, etc.)
• Bulgarian: неразделен (bg) (nerazdelen)
• Catalan: inseparable (ca)
• Dutch: onscheidbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: nedisigebla
• Estonian: lahutamatu, eraldamatu
• Finnish: erottamaton (fi)
• French: inséparable (fr)
• Galician: inseparable (gl)
• German: untrennbar (de), unteilbar (de), unzertrennlich (de)
• Greek: αχώριστος (el) (achóristos), αδιαχώριστος (el) (adiachóristos)
• Icelandic: óaðskiljanlegar
• Irish: níl dul idir (of people; lit. "there is no going between")
• Italian: inseparabile (it)
• Japanese: 切り離せない (kirihanasenai), 分離できない (bunri dekinai), 不可分の (ja) (fukabun no)
• Latvian: nenodalāms, nešķirams (f.e. friends)
• Macedonian: неразделив (nerazdeliv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uatskillelig

• Old English: untōdǣledlīċ
• Portuguese: inseparável (pt)
• Romanian: inseparabil (ro)
• Russian: неотдели́мый (ru) (neotdelímyj), неразлу́чный (ru) (nerazlúčnyj) (of couples, friends, etc.)
• Slovak: nerozlučný
• Spanish: inseparable (es)
• Swedish: oskiljaktig (sv)
• Ukrainian: невідді́льний (neviddílʹnyj), нерозлу́чний (nerozlúčnyj) (of couples, friends, etc.)

Noun

inseparable (plural inseparables)

1. Something that cannot be separated from something else.
   • 2002, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam, Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, page 129:

     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?

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin īnsēparābilis.

Adjective

inseparable (epicene, plural inseparables)

1. inseparable

   Antonym: separable

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnsēparābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [in.sə.pəˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.se.paˈɾa.ble]

Adjective

inseparable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inseparables)

1. inseparable

   Antonym: separable

Derived terms

• inseparablement

Further reading

• “inseparable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inseparable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “inseparable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inseparable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Alternative forms

• inseparábel

Etymology

From Latin īnsēparābilis.

Adjective

inseparable m or f (plural inseparables)

1. inseparable

   Antonym: separable

Derived terms

• inseparablemente

Further reading

• “inseparable”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin īnsēparābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /insepaˈɾable/ [ĩn.se.paˈɾa.β̞le]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧se‧pa‧ra‧ble

Adjective

inseparable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inseparables)

1. inseparable

   Antonyms: separable, incombinable

Derived terms

• inseparable de Namibia
• inseparablemente

 

Related terms

• inseparabilidad

 

Noun

inseparable m (plural inseparables)

1. lovebird (Agapornis)

Further reading

• “inseparable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28