Meaning & use

inexplicable

adjective·Advanced

Impossible to explain or account for; too strange or mysterious to make sense of.

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The detective was baffled by the inexplicable disappearance of the museum's most valuable painting.

For some inexplicable reason, the printer stopped working right before the deadline.

A note on using this word

Inexplicable describes something that resists explanation, stronger than confusing, which merely suggests difficulty understanding.

Words with a similar meaning

unexplainablemysteriousbaffling

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Words with an opposite meaning

explicableunderstandable

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