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Webster 1913 Edition


Inexplainable

Inˊex-plain′a-ble

,
Adj.
[Pref.
in-
not +
explainable
; cf. L.
inexplanabilis
.]
Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inexplainable

INEXPLA'INABLE

,
Adj.
That cannot be explained; inexplicable. [The latter word is generally used.]

Definition 2024


inexplainable

inexplainable

English

Adjective

inexplainable (comparative more inexplainable, superlative most inexplainable)

  1. That cannot be explained.
    • 1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait.:
      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.
    • 1910, Anna Katharine Green, The House of the Whispering Pines:
      [] 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.