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单词 unknowable
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Definition of unknowable in English:

unknowable

adjective ʌnˈnəʊəb(ə)lˌənˈnoʊəbəl
  • Not able to be known.

    the total cost is unknowable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His remains a fairly brutal, loveless world, and some of the characters may seem a little thin - or at least unknowable.
    • I don't think he meant that science is full of unpredictable or unknowable or supernatural forces.
    • There are times in the course of war when the outcome is simply unknowable.
    • Social insurance, however, does not depend on the future being unknowable.
    • Everyone who loves you is aware of your unfathomable depth, your dark feelings and unknowable concerns.
    • All new technologies generate fears of unknown and perhaps unknowable potential harm, but reassurance is demanded nonetheless.
    • You can never test a theory that claims that an invisible and unknowable force is responsible for a phenomenon.
    • The respondents may or may not have the same opinions as the non-responders, which are by definition unknowable.
    • The road ahead, as inevitable as it seems, remains fraught with such unknowable consequences.
    • The combination of unknowable rules and draconian penalties is already having a chilling effect.
    • As the secretary of treasury, you have to deal with these unknowable issues.
    • Whether this was because the man had not acted reasonably or whether the team had been poor at explaining his actions is unknowable on present information.
    • But one of the essential principles of modern science is that such final causes are unknowable.
    • But those are things unknowable to mortal flesh in the case of any particular person.
    • First, god or Brahman is unknown and unknowable; second, humans are accountable for their actions.
    • Worst of all, we accept this world of unknowable origins as our world.
    • Now he wants Americans to appreciate the gray areas and accept that some facts are unknowable.
    • In all honesty, having examined this unknowable show on two separate occasions, I remain unclear as to what it is actually about.
    • Faced with a wholly unknowable threat, the rational thing to do is to compare those outcomes we can predict, and ignore those we cannot.
    • Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
    Synonyms
    unidentifiable

Derivatives

  • unknowability

  • noun ʌnnəʊəˈbɪlɪti
    • The hypnotic miasma of names, institutions, corporations and locations that envelop each drawing demonstrates nothing if not the inherent - the intentional - unknowability of each of these networks.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While it dutifully revisits all the dark corners of this emotive subject, by its conclusion, it feels as if he has illuminated nothing except the confusion and unknowability of the problem.
      • Of course, one of the points made there is unknowability, and the nature of being unknowable is that it's unknowable.
      • But much of the fascination undoubtedly derives from the unknowability.
      • Perhaps we can pass up the pat solution, the easy nostrum, and immerse ourselves, with gratitude, in the complexity, the unknowability, the sheer imperfectibility of our lives.
 
 

Definition of unknowable in US English:

unknowable

adjectiveˌənˈnōəbəlˌənˈnoʊəbəl
  • Not able to be known.

    the total cost is unknowable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All new technologies generate fears of unknown and perhaps unknowable potential harm, but reassurance is demanded nonetheless.
    • Everyone who loves you is aware of your unfathomable depth, your dark feelings and unknowable concerns.
    • As the secretary of treasury, you have to deal with these unknowable issues.
    • First, god or Brahman is unknown and unknowable; second, humans are accountable for their actions.
    • Worst of all, we accept this world of unknowable origins as our world.
    • Whether this was because the man had not acted reasonably or whether the team had been poor at explaining his actions is unknowable on present information.
    • But those are things unknowable to mortal flesh in the case of any particular person.
    • I don't think he meant that science is full of unpredictable or unknowable or supernatural forces.
    • His remains a fairly brutal, loveless world, and some of the characters may seem a little thin - or at least unknowable.
    • There are times in the course of war when the outcome is simply unknowable.
    • You can never test a theory that claims that an invisible and unknowable force is responsible for a phenomenon.
    • Now he wants Americans to appreciate the gray areas and accept that some facts are unknowable.
    • Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
    • Faced with a wholly unknowable threat, the rational thing to do is to compare those outcomes we can predict, and ignore those we cannot.
    • The road ahead, as inevitable as it seems, remains fraught with such unknowable consequences.
    • The respondents may or may not have the same opinions as the non-responders, which are by definition unknowable.
    • But one of the essential principles of modern science is that such final causes are unknowable.
    • Social insurance, however, does not depend on the future being unknowable.
    • The combination of unknowable rules and draconian penalties is already having a chilling effect.
    • In all honesty, having examined this unknowable show on two separate occasions, I remain unclear as to what it is actually about.
    Synonyms
    unidentifiable
 
 
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