inenubilable

Adjective

inenubilable (comparative more inenubilable, superlative most inenubilable)

1. (formal, literary, rare) Incapable of being cleared of clouds.
   • As blue and gray go the clouds / Round and about, turning forever / Upon this focus which is the ineluctable you / This minute, this hour, this day, this afternoon that is forever, / Under this never inenubilable sky.1944 autumn, Crescendo: A Laboratory for Young America, volume 3, Waco, Tex.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 26, column 2
   • Our blue inenubilable Zembla, and the red-capped Steinmann, and the motorboat in the sea cave, and—1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Commentary”, in Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN, page 194
2. (figuratively, formal, literary, rare) Inexplicable, mysterious, unclear.
   • They go, but are overwhelmed by an avalanche, while the wife and the huntsman escape unharmed. This business of the avalanche is treated by the critics as something quite inenubilable. Yet what could be plainer than [Henrik] Ibsen's meaning?1903 February 7, “Max” [pseudonym; Max Beerbohm], “Ibsen’s ‘Epilogue’”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XCV, London: […] David Jones, …, →OCLC, pages 168–169...
   • For there is nothing in England to be matched with what lurks in the vapours of these meadows, and in the shadows of these spires—that mysterious, inenubilable spirit, spirit of Oxford.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, chapter XII, in Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC, pages 197–198

   Synonyms:

   abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, bottomless, Greek, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible