explicable
/ɪkˈsplɪkəb(ə)l
/ /ɛkˈsplɪkəb(ə)l/ /ˈɛksplɪˌkəb(ə)l /adjective
Able to be accounted for or understood: differences in schools were not explicable in terms of differences in intake...
- Fear makes violence more explicable and hatred more understandable.
- The trend is explicable in terms of a set of often unrelated and often seemingly innocuous market decisions and administrative policies.
- But the moral status of animals, I suggest, also generates a responsibility that may not be fully explicable in terms of animals' interests.
Synonyms
explainable, interpretable, definable;
understandable, comprehensible, accountable, intelligible
rare exponible
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin explicabilis, from explicare (see explicate).