Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult or impossible to explain; inexplicable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not explainable; incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That cannot be
explained .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the players of Verse begin falling into inexplainable comas worldwide, the world is catapulted into a state of turmoil – and the players themselves find out that Verse is not what it appears to be.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009
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Gushy adorable couple example #1: On Thursday I awoke with an inexplainable craving for a Blue Ribbon BLT.
ecstasia Diary Entry ecstasia 2008
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This is the true war on terror humans are born into—the war between frightened but reasoning animals and the inexplainable terrors of nature, the jungle from which we animals came.
Monkeys Love Black Gold The Daily Growler 2006
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At first he thought I was just feeling bad because maybe I was feeling like I hadn't really done every single thing I could have done to save our marriage, but to me, the marital regrets were secondary to the inexplainable feeling of mourning that I have had all day.
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2004
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But nevertheless, there is all this evil and -- I mean, it ` s-- there ` s something inexplainable about that.
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I mean, I loved Mr Ockenden, but in an inexplainable way.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2003
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Here you could turn on the electric lights now, and it was almost an inexplainable — it was an alien force.
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The night before entering Liverpool, while lying in his bunk, he experienced an indefinable, inexplainable feeling of sadness.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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Things inexplainable and impossible to fathom had crossed their paths on almost every side.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Roger Thompson Finlay
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Sedgwick was wildly smitten, himself, but he kept his wits about him enough to watch and try to fathom what in the bearing of the old men for some inexplainable reason disturbed him.
The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin
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