inexplicable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ex=pli=ca=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

inexplicable, a. [L. inexplicabilis: cf. F. inexplicable. See In- not, and Explicable.].

 Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]
"Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inexplicable, adj. that cannot be explained or accounted for.

Derivative

inexplicability n. inexplicably adv.

Etymology

F inexplicable or L inexplicabilis that cannot be unfolded (as IN-(1), EXPLICABLE)

THESAURUS

inexplicable

aimless, baffling, bewildering, casual, causeless, confounding, designless, driftless, dysteleological, enigmatic, enwrapped in mystery, haphazard, incomprehensible, indecipherable, indefinable, indescribable, indiscriminate, inextricable, inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, mindless, mysterious, mystic, mystifying, odd, peculiar, perplexing, promiscuous, purposeless, puzzling, random, stochastic, strange, stray, unaccountable, undefinable, undirected, unexplainable, unfathomable, unintelligible, uninterpretable, unmotivated, unsolvable

ROGET THESAURUS

inexplicable

Unintelligibility

N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.