Inexplicable

3 definitions found

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

  Inexplicable \In*ex"pli*ca*ble\, a. [L. inexplicabilis: cf. F.
     inexplicable. See {In-} not, and {Explicable}.]
     Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being
     explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable
     mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." --Cowper.
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           Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and
           perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves
           uncertain.                               --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inexplicable
       adj : incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable
             errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for
             inexplicable reasons" [syn: {incomprehensible}] [ant: {explicable}]

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

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexplicable":
     aimless, baffling, bewildering, casual, causeless, confounding,
     designless, driftless, dysteleological, enigmatic,
     enwrapped in mystery, haphazard, incomprehensible, indecipherable,
     indefinable, indescribable, indiscriminate, inextricable,
     inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, mindless, mysterious, mystic,
     mystifying, odd, peculiar, perplexing, promiscuous, purposeless,
     puzzling, random, stochastic, strange, stray, unaccountable,
     undefinable, undirected, unexplainable, unfathomable,
     unintelligible, uninterpretable, unmotivated, unsolvable