Meanings
comparative more inexplainable · superlative most inexplainable
- 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.1 more example
[…]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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