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inexplainable

inexplainable adjective: that cannot be explained.

Adjective

inexplainable (comparative more inexplainable, superlative most inexplainable)

  1. That cannot be explained.
    • The rider himself after a time becomes infected with this inexplainable desperation of terror, and I suppose I must have done so; but for a time I kept the upper hand.1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait.
    • […]kneeling down before my dead betrothed, I kissed her cold white hand with sincere compunction, before attempting the garbled and probably totally incoherent story with which I endeavoured to explain the inexplainable situation.1910, Anna Katharine Green, The House of the Whispering Pines

Forms of inexplainable

comparativemore inexplainable
superlativemost inexplainable

Origin of inexplainable

From in- + explainable.

Questions about inexplainable

What does inexplainable mean?
Inexplainable means that cannot be explained.
What part of speech is inexplainable?
Inexplainable is an adjective.

Words near inexplainable in the dictionary

  1. inexpiable
  2. inexpiableness
  3. inexpiably
  4. inexpiate
  5. inexpiated
  6. inexplainable
  7. inexplainably
  8. inexplicabilities
  9. inexplicability
  10. inexplicable
  11. inexplicableness

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