单词 | inexplicable |
释义 | inexplicable (once / 961 pages) adj Something inexplicable can't be explained. It doesn't make sense. You don't want to come to the beach on the most beautiful day of the year? That's inexplicable! Inexplicable is made up of the prefix in, which means "not," and explicable, which comes from the Latin explicabilis, meaning "unfolded, unraveled." Do you see the double negative? If something is not unfolded, it's folded up and tangled — like something that doesn't make sense. Your school's decision to call a snow day is inexplicable, if there's barely a layer of snow on the ground. WORD FAMILYinexplicable: inexplicably+/explicable: explicably, inexplicable/explicate: explicable, explicated, explicates, explicating, explication/explication: explications USAGE EXAMPLESEast title despite inexplicable benching of Tom Brady since October. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) And — perhaps most inexplicable of all — there was 2007, when millions of people voluntarily installed Windows Vista. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Miracles From Heaven This inspirational 2016 drama stars Jennifer Garner as a mother whose seriously ill young daughter is inexplicably healed after a near-death experience. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) adj incapable of being explained or accounted for inexplicable errors left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons Syn|Ant incomprehensible incomprehensible, uncomprehensible difficult to understand cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifyingof an obscure nature paradoxical, self-contradictoryseemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true unaccountable, unexplainablenot to be accounted for or explained unexplainedhaving the reason or cause not made clear insolubleadmitting of no solution or explanation explicable capable of being explicated or accounted for comprehendible, comprehensiblecapable of being comprehended or understood explainable, interpretablecapable of being understood solublesusceptible of solution or of being solved or explained |
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