Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Incapable of being explained or accounted for: Describes something that cannot be understood, clarified, or made clear through reason or analysis. It implies a lack of a logical, understandable, or discoverable cause.

Usage and Examples

• General Usage:
  • The sudden disappearance of the artifact remains inexplicable.
  • She felt an inexplicable sense of sadness upon entering the empty room.
  • Scientists were baffled by the inexplicable data from the experiment.

Advanced Usage

• "Inexplicable to someone": Used to emphasize that a specific person or group cannot understand something.
  • His sudden anger was inexplicable to his friends, who knew him as a calm person.
• "Seemingly/Rather/Completely inexplicable": Modifiers used to describe the degree to which something cannot be explained.
  • For a seemingly inexplicable reason, the system failed at the exact same time every day.

Variants and Related Words

• Inexplicably (adverb): In a manner that cannot be explained.
  • The storm changed course inexplicably.
• Inexplicability (noun): The quality or state of being inexplicable.
  • The inexplicability of the phenomenon fueled many theories.

Synonyms

• Unaccountable: Not able to be explained or understood.
• Incomprehensible: Impossible to understand.
• Unfathomable: Incapable of being fully explored or understood.
• Mysterious: Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.

Antonyms

• Explicable: Able to be accounted for or understood.
• Comprehensible: Able to be understood; intelligible.
• Explainable: Capable of being explained.

Idioms and Phrases

• Defy explanation: To be impossible to explain (a phrase with a similar meaning to 'inexplicable').
  • The optical illusion defies explanation for many viewers.

Adjective

1. incapable of being explained or accounted for
   • inexplicable errors
   • left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons