unexplained

/ ˌʌnɪkˈspleɪnd /

adjective

1. not explained or understood

   unexplained phenomena

Other Word Forms

• unexplainable adjective

Example Sentences

In early September, a cluster of unexplained child deaths in a small town in Madhya Pradesh sent local health workers scrambling.

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Detectives said the death was being treated as unexplained and may not have been a murder.

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Four days later officers said the death was being treated as unexplained and may not have been a murder.

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The circumstances surrounding her death were described by police as "unexplained".

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Mr Wright's death is currently being treated as unexplained,

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• exotic 
• foreign 
• nameless 
• new 
• remote 
• strange 
• uncharted 
• undiscovered 
• unexplored 
• unfamiliar 
• unidentified 
• unnamed 
• unrecognized