Inexplicable \In*ex"pli*ca*ble\, a. [L. inexplicabilis: cf. F.
inexplicable. See In- not, and Explicable.]
Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being
explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable
mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and
perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves
uncertain. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inexplicable
adj : incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable
errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for
inexplicable reasons" [syn: incomprehensible] [ant: explicable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexplicable":
aimless, baffling, bewildering, casual, causeless, confounding,
designless, driftless, dysteleological, enigmatic,
enwrapped in mystery, haphazard, incomprehensible, indecipherable,
indefinable, indescribable, indiscriminate, inextricable,
inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, mindless, mysterious, mystic,
mystifying, odd, peculiar, perplexing, promiscuous, purposeless,
puzzling, random, stochastic, strange, stray, unaccountable,
undefinable, undirected, unexplainable, unfathomable,
unintelligible, uninterpretable, unmotivated, unsolvable
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
incomprehensible
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