Inexplicable
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Definition
(adj.) incapable of being explained or accounted for; 'inexplicable errors'; 'left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons' .
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Definition
(a.) Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unaccountable, unintelligible, incomprehensible, inscrutable, mysterious, strange, enigmatical, not to be explained.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mysterious, enigmatical
ANT:Obvious, plain, easy
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Definition
adj. that cannot be explained: unintelligible.—ns. Inexplicabil′ity Inex′plicableness.—adv. Inex′plicably.
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Examples
- And they are wholly inexplicable on any other view. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There lies the inexplicable part of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is at present a quite inexplicable story, and we give these preposterous facts with no attempt to rationalize them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What is there inexplicable, pray, tell me, in so very natural an occurrence? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Bumble's conduct on being left to himself, was rather inexplicable. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- How inexplicable are the cases of serial homologies on the ordinary view of creation! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Now, as on a thousand other occasions, inexplicable nervous scruples kept her back from interfering. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A creature that could reason but not feel would never know the value of life, for what is ultimate is in itself inexplicable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This grand fact of the grouping of all organic beings under what is called the Natural System, is utterly inexplicable on the theory of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She seemed to take an inexplicable pride in my answer--to find a comfort in it which no other and higher considerations could afford. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My sister was struck by my narrative: How beyond the imagination of man, she exclaimed, are the decrees of heaven, wondrous and inexplicable! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What does that inexplicable, that uncanny turn of countenance mean? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That one dint in the short, green grass was the only material witness left of this inexplicable nocturnal flight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This was the telegram which you appear in some inexplicable way to have seen. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cases of this nature are common, and are, as we shall hereafter see, inexplicable on the theory of independent creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The case at present must remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views here entertained. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The Egyptian and Abyssinian churches also detached themselves very early upon similarly inexplicable points. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The more I thought, the more extraordinary and inexplicable did it appear. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is really the most extraordinary and inexplicable business. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Inexplicable creature! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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