Unexplained
[ʌnɪk'spleɪnd;ʌnek-] or [,ʌnɪk'splend]
Definition
(adj.) having the reason or cause not made clear; 'an unexplained error' .
(adj.) not explained; 'accomplished by some unexplained process' .
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Examples
- He had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was just another sudden unexplained rarity of this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The disappearance of your precious birthday gift may seem strange; your unexplained connection with that event may seem stranger still. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sunlight causes many strange, unexplained effects. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I said,' he began, 'when I saw you last, that there was something unexplained, which might perhaps influence you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This statement sounds so well, that I cannot in my conscience let it pass unexplained. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Unbroken always is this blank; alike entire and unexplained. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What suggestions of any mystery unexplained had arisen out of my visit to the vestry? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He may select for enquiry some point of history or some unexplained phenomenon of nature. Plato. The Republic.
- Here is an unexplained one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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