insoslayable

Spanish

Etymology

From soslayar (“to evade”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /insoslaˈʝable/ [ĩn.sos.laˈʝa.β̞le]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /insoslaˈʝable/ [ĩn.sos.laˈʝa.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /insoslaˈʃable/ [ĩn.sos.laˈʃa.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /insoslaˈʒable/ [ĩn.sos.laˈʒa.β̞le]

• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧sos‧la‧ya‧ble

Adjective

insoslayable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insoslayables)

1. unavoidable
   • 2015 July 23, Pablo de Llano, ““¡Llévenselos al sur!””, in El País‎^[1]:

     Paradójicamente su anacrónico furor patriótico los emparenta de manera indirecta, en cuanto marginales ignorados por el sistema, con los menores que huyen de la miseria de los países paria de la globalización – con la diferencia insoslayable de lo que padecen unos y otros – .

     Paradoxically, their anachronistic, patriotic rage indirectly links them to, as far as being outsiders ignored by the system, the minors that flee the poverty of globalisation's pariah states - with the unavoidable difference being what each suffers.

Further reading

• “insoslayable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16