Associations to the word «Inoperable»

Wiktionary

INOPERABLE, adjective. Incapable of being successfully surgically operated on.
INOPERABLE, adjective. Incapable of correct operation or function; inoperative.

Dictionary definition

INOPERABLE, adjective. Not able to perform its normal function.
INOPERABLE, adjective. Not suitable for surgery; "metastasis has rendered the tumor inoperable".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne