inexplicable
[adjective]
Synonyms: unaccountable, baffling, enigmatic, incomprehensible, insoluble, mysterious, mystifying, strange, unfathomable, unintelligible

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Antonyms: explainable, explicable
Contrasted words: clear, obvious, plain, comprehensible, graspable, intelligible
Related Words: indecipherable, indescribable, inscrutable, undefinable, unfathomable, unsolvable, mysterious, odd, peculiar, strange

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English Thesaurus: mysterious, puzzling, baffling, inexplicable, enigmatic, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

in‧ex‧plic‧a‧ble /ˌɪnɪkˈsplɪkəbəl◂ $ ɪnˈeksplɪkəbəl, ˌɪnɪkˈsplɪk-/ adjective
[Word Family: adjective: unexplained, explanatory, explicable ≠ inexplicable; noun: explaining, explanation; verb: explain; adverb: inexplicably]
too unusual or strange to be explained or understood Synonym : incomprehensible, strange:
inexplicable behaviour
For some inexplicable reason, he felt depressed.
—inexplicably adverb

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

inexplicable
adj.
VERBS be, seem | remain | find sth
ADV. completely, quite, totally Their actions are completely inexplicable.
apparently | otherwise This theory makes sense of an otherwise inexplicable phenomenon.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mysterious difficult to explain or understand, and often strange or slightly frightening:
the mysterious disappearance of ships in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle
What’s that mysterious noise?
puzzling difficult to explain or understand:
At first this must seem a puzzling question.
I found her attitude deeply puzzling.
baffling impossible to understand, so that you feel very confused:
It was a baffling case.
Like many people, I find theroretical physics baffling.
inexplicable formal impossible to explain:
For some inexplicable reason her mind went completely blank.
Some things in life are inexplicable.
enigmatic formal mysterious and difficult to understand, but also often attractive or interesting – used especially about people, their expressions, or things they say:
She gave him an enigmatic smile.
an enigmatic remark
cryptic formal having a meaning that is difficult to understand, and is not expressed in a clear direct way – used especially about things that people say or write:
I got a rather cryptic message from him.
cryptic comments
be a mystery if something is a mystery, you cannot understand how or why it happens:
Four years later, his death remains a complete mystery.
It’s all a mystery to me.
be shrouded/veiled in mystery if an event or a situation, especially one that happened a long time ago, is shrouded in mystery, it is mysterious because no one knows exactly what happened:
Stone age civilization, veiled in mystery as it is, has provided the greatest challenge to historians.

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