inexplainable

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adjective

That cannot be explained.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectiveinexplainable (comparative more inexplainable, superlative most inexplainable)

comparative more inexplainable · superlative most inexplainable

  1. That cannot be explained.

    The rider himself after a time becomes infected with this inexplainable desperation of terror, and I suppose I must have done so; but for a time I kept the upper hand.

    1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait.
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    […]kneeling down before my dead betrothed, I kissed her cold white hand with sincere compunction, before attempting the garbled and probably totally incoherent story with which I endeavoured to explain the inexplainable situation.

    1910, Anna Katharine Green, The House of the Whispering Pines

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Chicago

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