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unexplainable

/ˈʌnəkˌspleɪnəbəl/
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Other forms: unexplainably

Unexplainable things are puzzling and impossible to solve. Some people describe unexplainable lights in the night sky as UFOs.

If you can't think of a good reason for your bad mood, it's unexplainable. And when you experience a strange coincidence, like running into a friend who you were just thinking about, that's also unexplainable. At the heart of this word is explain, from the Latin root explanare, "to make clear or make plain." Unexplainable adds the "not" prefix un- and the suffix -able, which expresses ability or capacity. Scramble those word parts together, and you've got a word meaning "not able to explain."

Definitions of unexplainable
  1. adjective
    not to be accounted for or explained
    “an unexplainable fear”
    synonyms: unaccountable
    incomprehensible, inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
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