† unexplicableadj.
Obsolete.
1. = inexplicable adj. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexplicableness > [adjective]
unplitable?c1425
unexplicable1532
inexplicable1546
subtle1547
irresolute1574
subtile1582
undissoluble1587
incomprehensible1604
unexpoundable1611
unfoldable1611
inexplainable1623
unsalvable1624
uninterpretable1625
indissolvable1637
unaccountable1643
inaccountable1647
unexplainablea1711
undecipherable1757
irresolvable1785
indecipherable1853
unconstruable1856
inconstruable1874
unravellable1881
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 542/1 Which places of themselfe all olde holy doctours confesse for diffuse and almost unexplicable.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Pref. 352 Later Philosophers..haue filled their bookes..with vnexplicable opinions, out of which no account of nature can be giuen.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. lxxvii. 100 Justice being oppressed by the unexplicable ambition of potent men.
1803 Ann. Rev. 1 275 What remains unexplicable in the conduct of public men is not solved by conjecture.
1815 Monthly Mag. 38 111 Many hundred words obsolete, unexplicable, barbarous,..will be dislodged.
2. = inexplicable adj. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adjective]
uncouthc897
unnimlyc1225
incomprehensiblea1340
unsearchablec1384
unknowable?c1400
investigablea1425
uncomprehensiblea1425
unthinkablec1445
imperscrutablec1450
inscrutablec1450
inopinable?a1475
incomprenable1502
unspectable?1504
incogitablec1522
uncogitable1529
impenetrable1531
inimaginable1534
inexplicable1555
unsensible1555
unscrutable1562
unfashionable1563
unpenetrable1581
unexcogitable1592
ineffable1598
inexcogitable1599
indivinable1603
ininvestigable1604
incapable1605
searchless?1606
uncomprehensive1609
unconceivable1611
undivinable1611
unimaginable1611
unexplicable1615
unintelligible1616
unapprehensible?1617
unfathomable1617
imprehensible1622
ununderstandablea1631
indeprehensible1633
indiscernible1635
inscrute1639
inapprehensiblea1641
indiscoverable1640
unexaminable1641
impervestigable1643
fathomless1645
inconceivable1646
indeterminable1646
inexplorable1646
insearchable1647
incomprehended1652
comprehendlessa1654
incomprehensive1656
untraceable1661
uninvestigablea1677
unintelligent1683
incognoscible1691
thought-transcendinga1711
uncognizable1720
acataleptic1727
undescriptive1744
elusive1751
impalpable1781
inaccessible1796
unconjecturable1806
uncognoscible1821
unascertainable1827
unfixable1831
unguessable1832
unrealizable1832
unsurveyable1833
hard-shelled1835
unintellective1837
undeemed1845
graspless1849
unconjectured1850
incognizable1852
ungraspable1853
unreadable1853
super-cerebral1854
elusory1856
trans-conscious1865
intangible1880
uncatchable1892
unspelt1892
unplumbable1895
unknowledgeable1920
indiscutable1933
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 225 Him Minos doomes To durance, in vnexplicable roomes.
a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xix. 313 By most admirable and unexplicable fraud & subtilty.
1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 61 Mould to entertain the Fibers, which else you will find to mat in unexplicable intanglements.
Derivatives
Obsolete.† unˈexplicableness n. Obsolete
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexplicableness > [noun]
inexplicableness1652
unexplicableness1662
unaccountableness1676
unaccountability1704
inexplicability1804
indecipherableness1806
indecipherability1894
unanalysability1941
1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) App. iii. 149 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) The unexplicableness of a Spirit's moving Matter is no greater argument [etc.].
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