What's the difference between irresolvable and unsolvable?

Irresolvable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pervasive complications, both structural and functional, appear inherent yet not irresolvable in such a fusion.
  • (2) People like the hapless Brooklyn bridge selfie-taker are unlucky enough to be made scapegoats for our deep, perhaps irresolvable confusions about the way we live now.
  • (3) We defend the view that the obstetrician's response to the abortion controversy cannot be based on accounts of the independent moral status of the fetus, because all such accounts are irresolvably disputable.
  • (4) And we are now having to put up with the result: a politics that keeps trying to resolve the irresolvable consequences of what has happened, like a child trying to mend a broken toy on Boxing Day.
  • (5) Hong Kong is now trapped in an irresolvable contradiction.
  • (6) However, the two authors had such different definitions of the key terms in their discussion that their differences were not only unresolved but irresolvable.

Unsolvable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Record linkage of the findings in heterozygotes for use later in life is an unsolved problem.
  • (2) Unsolved epidemics of acute respiratory disease dating to the 1950s were subsequently attributed to the newly described pathogens.
  • (3) The natural transmission mechanism(s) of the simian trypanosomiases in South Asia remains an unsolved problem.
  • (4) The role of steroid therapy in brain oedema following acute cerebral lesions is still unsolved.
  • (5) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
  • (6) A number of problems concerning both clinical and genetic or cytogenetic aspects of the fragile-X syndrome remain unsolved.
  • (7) Examination of possibility of AAT deficiency should be performed in every case, where the cause of liver disease is unsolved; this examination is especially indicated by the presence of typical PAS positive, diastase-resistant, AAT immunreactive globules in hepatocytes.
  • (8) The attacks had clear echoes of the unsolved assassination in January this year of one of their colleagues, particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi.
  • (9) The question, of whether long-term treatment of essential hypertension with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is capable of modifying glucose tolerance or insulin sensitivity in Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes, is still unsolved.
  • (10) The problem of the quantification of vertigo is still unsolved.
  • (11) Although the molecular nature of several blood group antigens was established in 1950-1980, the identification and characteristics of the Rh-antigens long remained unsolved.
  • (12) Theoretical prediction of the structure, stability and activity of proteins, an important unsolved problem in molecular biology, would be of use for guiding site-directed mutagenesis and other protein-engineering techniques.
  • (13) Although implants have not yet been used for this purpose in children, there are no unsolvable technological problems.
  • (14) Coronary heart disease is now the leading cause of death in many countries and is the major unsolved problem in the treatment of hypertension.
  • (15) In January 1977 an unsolved outbreak of infection at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, D.C.) that occurred in 1965 was linked with Legionnaires' disease.
  • (16) Although the purely engineering problems as well as the surgical ones appear solvable at this time, the remaining unsolved problems lie in two areas: 1) the bioengineering interfacing, i.e., the search for methods needed to connect an engineering (electronic) device to the neural auditory system in an efficient manner; and 2) clinical tests for the assessment of the functional state of the cochlear nerve.
  • (17) The problem of its biological significance and the question whether emperipolesis is the result of invasion of engulfment must remain unsolved.
  • (18) These circulatory effects of O3 may be significant from the viewpoint of health effects, although its mechanisms remain unsolved.
  • (19) Its function, which has long been an unsolved puzzle, is likely to be related to the unique ability of PSII to oxidize water.
  • (20) So the problem of whether testosterone or androstanolone or another natural steroid is the most effective myotrophic hormone in rat skeletal muscle remains unsolved.