explicable

[ ek-spli-kuh-buhl, ik-splik-uh-buhl ]

/ ˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being explained.

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Origin of explicable

1550–60; <Latin explicābilis, equivalent to explicā(re) to explicate + -bilis-ble

OTHER WORDS FROM explicable

non·ex·pli·ca·ble, adjective

Words nearby explicable

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How to use explicable in a sentence

Looking for the explicable in a case that seems so inexplicable is what the air crash investigators have to do.
Why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Must Have Died Instantaneously|Clive Irving|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To him who flees love, its nature is explicable; to you, who are still under its influence, it remains a riddle.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
A large proportion of the good results are certainly fully explicable as the results of suggestion.
The Sexual Life of the Child|Albert Moll
This horror is probably explicable as the result of a combination of simple horrors.
Your Mind and How to Use It|William Walker Atkinson

The last is well known to every penologist and explicable in general psychological terms.
Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross
Love had eyes, love had a voice that night,-love was the explicable magic lifting terrestrial to seraphic.
The Amazing Marriage, Complete|George Meredith

British Dictionary definitions for explicable

explicable

/ (ˈɛksplɪkəbəl, ɪkˈsplɪk-) /

adjective

capable of being explained

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