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From in- + solvent.

• enPR: ĭn-sŏlvʹ-ənt, IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɒlv.ənt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɑːɫv.ənt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɒɫv.ənt/
• Rhymes: -ɒlvənt

insolvent (comparative more insolvent, superlative most insolvent)

1. Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.
   an insolvent debtor
   • 2025 October 15, “News: Pathfinder to run final trains”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 13:
     Pathfinder is keen to stress it is not insolvent, but owner Barry Cordell, who is in his late 80s, has decided he can no longer bankroll the company.
2. Owing more than one has in assets.
3. Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.
   an insolvent estate

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished
• solvent
• insolvency
• insolvently

Unable to pay

• Afrikaans: insolvent, bankrot
• Belarusian: неплацежаздо́льны (njeplacježazdólʹny)
• Bulgarian: несъстоятелен (bg) (nesǎstojatelen), банкрутирал (bankrutiral)
• Catalan: insolvent (ca)
• Czech: insolventní (cs), platebně neschopný
• Danish: insolvent
• Finnish: maksukyvytön (fi)
• French: insolvable (fr)
• German: insolvent (de), zahlungsunfähig (de)
• Greek: χρεωκοπημένος (el) (chreokopiménos)
• Hungarian: fizetőképtelen, fizetésképtelen (hu)
• Italian: insolvente (it)
• Macedonian: инсолвентен (insolventen), несолвентен (nesolventen)
• Manx: neuhoogh
• Māori: pēkerapu
• Norman: însolvabl'ye m or f
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: betalingsudyktig, insolvent
  Nynorsk: insolvent
• Polish: niewypłacalny (pl)
• Portuguese: insolvente
• Romanian: insolvent, insolvabil (ro)
• Russian: неплатёжеспосо́бный (ru) (neplatjožesposóbnyj)
• Spanish: insolvente (es)
• Turkish: müflis, batkın
  Ottoman Turkish: باتقین (batkın)
• Ukrainian: неплатоспромо́жний (neplatospromóžnyj)

insolvent (plural insolvents)

1. (law) One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.[1]

• In England, before 1861, especially applied to persons who were not traders.

1. ^ John Bouvier (1839), “INSOLVENT”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes I (A–K), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC.

• “insolvent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

17th century, from Dutch insolvent (1582). Equivalent to in- +‎ solvent. The latter is younger in German.

• IPA(key): /ˌɪnzɔlˈvɛnt/, (also) /ˈɪnzɔlˌvɛnt/

insolvent (strong nominative masculine singular insolventer, comparative insolventer, superlative am insolventesten)

1. insolvent
   Synonyms: zahlungsunfähig, illiquide
   Synonyms: solvent, zahlungsfähig, zahlungskräftig, liquide, flüssig

Positive forms of insolvent

Comparative forms of insolvent

Superlative forms of insolvent

• Insolvenz
• “insolvent” in Duden online
• “insolvent”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)

From German insolvent.

insolvent (neuter singular **insolvent, definite singular and plural insolvente)

1. insolvent

• solvent
• insolvens
• “insolvent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German insolvent.

insolvent (neuter singular **insolvent, definite singular and plural insolvente)

1. insolvent

• solvent
• insolvens
• “insolvent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German insolvent.

insolvent m or n (feminine singular insolventă, masculine plural insolvenți, feminine/neuter plural insolvente)

1. bankrupt