extricable

[ ek-stri-kuh-buhl, ik-strik-uh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being extricated.

Other Words From

• non·extri·ca·ble adjective
• non·extri·ca·bly adverb
• un·extri·ca·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of extricable¹

1615–25; < Latin extric ( āre ) ( extricate ) + -able

Example Sentences

We know that the electrical, chemical brain is not extricable from the subjective mind.

From The Guardian

The key is not letting them define, discount, or dissuade you from the superb aspects of your sex life, or even seeing them as extricable from those.

From Salon

Well worn, it had also been well used, and when deftly handled, had still some delights extricable.

From Project Gutenberg

So great a number of jurisdictions created an extricable labyrinth, which, by keeping up a ceaseless conflict between the chiefs in regard to the extent of their powers, stimulated each one to sustain his own authority at all hazards, and, with such resoluteness as to employ even force to gain his purpose.

From Project Gutenberg

Its content is also not easily extricable from its comic-book form.

From Time Magazine Archive