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inexplicable adjective [ ˌɪnɪkˈsplɪkəb(ə)l ]

• unable to be explained or accounted for.
• "for some inexplicable reason her mind went completely blank"
Similar: unaccountable, unexplainable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, insoluble, unsolvable, baffling, puzzling, perplexing, mystifying, bewildering, mysterious, strange, weird, abstruse, enigmatic, beyond comprehension, beyond understanding, wildering, insolvable,
Opposite: understandable,
Origin: late Middle English: from French, or from Latin inexplicabilis ‘that cannot be unfolded’, from in- ‘not’ + explicabilis (see explicable).


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