Meanings
comparative more inexcusable · superlative most inexcusable
- not excusableFirst known use 15th c.
It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of England are having to experience such a dire level of service.
2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Network News: TPE under fire over "unacceptable" cancellations”, in RAIL, number 970, page 6Synonyms: unexcusable · Antonyms: excusable
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivewithout excuse or justification
adjectivenot excusable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininexcusabilis
- Middle Frenchinexcusable
- Englishinexcusable
From Middle French inexcusable, from Latin inexcusabilis.
More words from Middle French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀναπολόγητος
- ἀναπολόγητος (anapológētos)not excusable
Bulgarian непростим
- непростим (neprostim)not excusable
Catalan inexcusable
- inexcusablenot excusable
Czech neomluvitelný
- neomluvitelnýnot excusable
Danish utilgivelig
- utilgivelignot excusable
Estonian andestamatu, andeksandmatu
- andestamatunot excusable
- andeksandmatunot excusable
Finnish anteeksiantamaton
- anteeksiantamatonnot excusable
French inexcusable
- inexcusablenot excusable
German unentschuldbar
- unentschuldbarnot excusable
Greek αδικαιολόγητος
- αδικαιολόγητος (adikaiológitos)not excusable
Hungarian megbocsáthatatlan
- megbocsáthatatlannot excusable
Irish doleithscéil
- doleithscéilnot excusable
Italian inescusabile
- inescusabilenot excusable
Polish niewybaczalny
- niewybaczalnynot excusable
Portuguese inescusável, indesculpável
- inescusávelnot excusable
- indesculpávelnot excusable
Spanish inexcusable
- inexcusablenot excusable
Welsh anesgusodol
- anesgusodolnot excusable
Cite this entry
inexcusable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexcusable
“inexcusable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexcusable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inexcusable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexcusable.
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