untraceableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈtreɪsəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈtreɪsəb(ə)l/ (un- prefix1 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
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
1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 20 Who can alone..fathom the depths of Satan, and track him through all his windings and (otherwise untraceable) Labyrinths.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 199 If the wayes of Gods universall providence be untraceable.
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 507 A proper and salutary quantity of this untraceable fluid.
1782–3 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 335 The untraceable way by which Divine Wisdom issues from the infinite ocean of God.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 293 The..hooping-cough..was untraceable to any apparent source.
1883 J. Parker Apostolic Life II. 167 Physical circumstances..operate in a subtle and often untraceable manner upon our..spiritual constitution.
Derivatives
unˈtraceableness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun]
obscuritya1522
incomprehensibility1598
entangledness1611
unconceivableness1611
unsearchableness1611
indiscernibleness1649
inscrutability1654
undiscoverableness1656
unscrutableness1657
unimaginableness1659
inconceivableness1661
unintelligibility1661
imperscrutableness1664
unknowableness1664
unintelligibleness1678
unfathomableness1690
inscrutableness1727
incognoscibility1824
uncognoscibility1827
unconjecturability1827
impenetrability1847
inconceivability1847
intangibility1847
untraceableness1856
incognizabilityc1860
incomprehensibleness1862
unknowability1863
unthinkability1865
elusiveness1873
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 288 This comparative Dimness and Untraceableness of the thoughts which are the sources of our admiration.
unˈtraceably adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adverb]
inscrutably1597
unknownly1611
inaccessibly1621
over a person's heada1626
unconceivably1630
indiscernibly1636
unintelligibly1664
unimaginably1666
unsearchably1706
impenetrably1759
unfathomablya1822
unrecognizably1836
incomprehensibly1863
untraceably1875
indigestibly1977
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth of Lang. x. 207 The world of untraceably sexual or of unsexual objects.
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