Synonyms for inexplicable
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Unexplainable
unexplainable, incomprehensible, mysterious, inscrutable, strange, unfathomable, unaccountable, mystifying, puzzling, bewildering, unintelligible, preternatural, obscure, enigmatic, insoluble, cryptic, unsolvable, deep, undecipherable, insolvable, incognizable, incognisable UK, unknowable
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.
Example sentences
- mysterious A mysterious spaceship was flying away from Earth.
- incomprehensible This language is incomprehensible to me when spoken.
- unexplainable Yanni has seen unexplainable things his whole life.
- inscrutable She looked at him with an inscrutable expression.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inexplicable | rising | |
| mysterious | rising | |
| incomprehensible | rising | |
| unexplainable | rising | |
| inscrutable | rising | |
| inexplainable | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- deep1
- 7 letters
- strange1, obscure2, cryptic2
- 8 letters
- puzzling3
- 9 letters
- enigmatic4, insoluble4
- 10 letters
- mysterious4, unknowable4, mystifying4, unsolvable4, insolvable
- 11 letters
- bewildering4, inscrutable4
- 12 letters
- unfathomable5, incognizable, incognisable
- 13 letters
- unaccountable5, unexplainable5, preternatural, inexplainable
- 14 letters
- unintelligible6, undecipherable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obscure2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inexplicable
- Italiano
- inspiegabile
- Català
- inexplicable