Meaning & use
Unexplained
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Not accounted for or made clear; lacking an explanation.
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The plane's disappearance remains one of aviation's great unexplained mysteries.
She woke up with an unexplained bruise on her arm.
A note on using this word
Common in news headlines about mysteries, from unexplained phenomena to unexplained absences.
Words with a similar meaning
unaccounted-formysterious
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Words with an opposite meaning
explainedclarified
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