Meaning & use
explicable
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Able to be explained or accounted for.
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Her sudden change in mood was easily explicable once we learned she'd lost her job.
The strange readings were explicable as a simple instrument error.
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Explicable shares a root with 'explain' and 'explicit,' all tracing back to Latin explicare, meaning 'to unfold.'
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explainableunderstandable
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