Explicable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Explicable \Ex"pli*ca*ble\, a. [L. explicabilis: cf. F.
     explicable.]
     Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or
     accounted for; admitting explanation.
  
     Syn: explainable. [1913 Webster]


  
                It is not explicable upon any grounds. --Burke.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  explicable
       adj : capable of being explicated or accounted for; "explicable
             behavior" [ant: {inexplicable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "explicable":
     Englishable, accountable, alleged, answerable, ascertainable,
     ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed,
     capable of solution, charged, construable, credited, decipherable,
     decodable, definable, derivable from, derivational, derivative,
     describable, determinable, doable, due, explainable, imputable,
     imputed, interpretable, open to solution, owing, putative,
     referable, referred to, renderable, resolvable, soluble, solvable,
     traceable, translatable, workable