Meaning & use
inexplicable
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.
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Words with an opposite meaning
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