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unsearchable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ʌnˈsəːtʃəb(ə)l/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.

Meanings

1. (archaic) That cannot be searched or investigated into; inscrutable, unknowable.
   • Preachers warned […] that although God might sometimes make the meaning of his judgements clear they were normally unsearchable. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 103:
   • Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and / knowledge of God! / How unsearchable his judgments, / and his paths beyond tracing out! 1978, The New Testament (NIV), Romans 11:33:
   • He chastiseth and corrects, as to Him seems best, in His deep, unsearchable, and secret judgment, and all for our good. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
   • So intricate, ſo anfractuous, ſo unſearchable are the vvays of Providence. 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Second Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph I, page 171:
2. That cannot be sought out or looked for.
3. (Internet) Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.
   • "Having a band name like that makes me totally unsearchable," says Rhode Island artist Λ, explaining that his name is pronounced "arc", "but I like how using symbols means favouring an aesthetic choice over a more practical one.[…]" 2010 August 11, Sian Rowe, quoting Λ, “Meet the bands whose /\/ /\ /\/\ € $ are made out of $¥ /\/\ ß 0 \ $”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

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Antonyms

searchable

Deriveds

unsearchably · unsearchableness

Translations (4)

bg необясним (Translations) · de undurchsuchbar (Translations) · tr aranamaz (Translations) · bg непонятен (Translations)

unsearchable en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ʌnˈsəːtʃəb(ə)l/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.

Meanings

1. That which is unknowable.
   • That there should be two unsearchables in the universe, that God should be one and man the other, would confer great dignity and honour upon us men were it not for the humiliating fact that it is our deceitfulness that renders us an inscrutable problem to all but God. 1887, Richard Roberts, My Later Ministry: Being Sermons, &c.page=82:

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