unknowable
US/ʌnˈnoʊ.ə.bəl/
unknowable adjective: not knowable; not able to be known.
Adjective
unknowable (comparative more unknowable, superlative most unknowable)
- Not knowable; not able to be known.
- Number fourteen: Some of the things you need to know are things that are unknowable.2004, George Carlin, “NINETY-NINE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39
- The mascot for the manosphere, Andrew Tate, believes that women belong at home, are a man’s property, and shouldn’t be able to drive. And an unknowable amount of young men are following this rhetoric through sites like Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube. But once they fall down the rabbit hole of the...2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue
- Synonyms:
- unintelligible, abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, bottomless, Greek, inapprehensible, incognizable
- Antonyms:
- knowable, apprehensible, clear, limpid, comprehensible, explainable, explicable, explicatable, fathomable, graspable
Noun
unknowable (plural unknowables)
- Something that cannot be known.
- That night I think of other unknowables. How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps.2010, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, self-published, page 138
unknowable meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Gujarati
unknowable in Hindi
- not able to be known
- अज्ञेय agyey
unknowable in Tamil
- தெரிந்து கொள்ள முடியாத ஒன்று
unknowable in Gujarati
- not able to be known
- અલખ alakh
Examples of unknowable in a sentence
- For Groddeck, the it is given, unknowable, and he does not try to conceptualize drives or forces.
- What comes next is a government of unknowable composition.
- But Radar would have barked and she was deeply asleep, whuffling her way through some unknowable dream of hope.
Synonyms of unknowable
- unintelligible
- abstruse
- Chinese
- dense
- enigmatic
- fathomless
- bottomless
- Greek
- inapprehensible
- incognizable
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Antonyms
- knowable
- apprehensible
- clear
- limpid
- comprehensible
- explainable
- explicable
- explicatable
- fathomable
- graspable
8 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of unknowable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unknowable |
| superlative | most unknowable |
| Noun | |
| plural | unknowables |
Origin of unknowable
From un- + knowable.
Words formed from unknowable
Words that rhyme with unknowable
Questions about unknowable
- What does unknowable mean?
- Unknowable means not knowable; not able to be known.
- What is unknowable in Hindi?
- Unknowable in Hindi is अज्ञेय (agyey). See Unknowable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unknowable?
- Unknowable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce unknowable?
- Unknowable is pronounced /ʌnˈnoʊ.ə.bəl/ (US).
Words near unknowable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unknowable (page history and authors); unknowable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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