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.

   Synonyms: unseparable, indivisible

   Antonyms: separable, unannexable, uncombinable, divisible

   • 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.

Derived terms

• inseparableness
• inseparably

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)
• Czech: nerozlučný, nerozlučitelný
• 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)
• Hindi: अभिन्न (hi) (abhinn)
• Hungarian: elválaszthatatlan (hu)
• 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)
• Korean: 나눌 수 없는 (nanul su eomneun), 불가분(不可分) (ko) (bulgabun)
• Latin: īnsēparābilis
• Latvian: nenodalāms, nešķirams (f.e. friends)
• Macedonian: неразделив (nerazdeliv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uatskillelig

• Old English: untōdǣledlīċ
• Polish: nierozłączny (pl)
• 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)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: ملازم (mülâzım)

• 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /insepaˈɾable/ [ĩn.se.paˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧se‧pa‧ra‧ble

Adjective

inseparable (epicene, plural inseparables)

1. inseparable

   Antonym: separable

Further reading

• “inseparable”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsēparābilis.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “inseparable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “inseparable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “inseparable”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Galician

Alternative forms

• inseparábel, inseparável (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *s(w)é

Proto-Indo-European *s(w)ēdder.

Latin sē-

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o-

Proto-Italic *paro-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin parō

Latin sēparō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin sēparābilis

Latin īnsēparābilisder.

Galician inseparable

Derived from Latin īnsēparābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /insepaˈɾable/ [in.s̺e.paˈɾa.β̞lɪ]
• Rhymes: -able
• Hyphenation: in‧se‧pa‧ra‧ble

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, 2012–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *s(w)é

Proto-Indo-European *s(w)ēdder.

Latin sē-

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o-

Proto-Italic *paro-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin parō

Latin sēparō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin sēparābilis

Latin īnsēparābilis

Spanish inseparable

From Latin īnsēparābilis.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• 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), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026