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inexplainable en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + explainable.

Meanings

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.:
   • […]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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