explicable

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

adjective

1. capable of being explained.

explicable

/ ˈɛksplɪkəbəl, ɪkˈsplɪk- /

adjective

1. capable of being explained

Other Word Forms

• nonexplicable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of explicable¹

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

Example Sentences

She said a short way into that conversation "it became clear to me as a clinician that these were not clinically explicable collapses".

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But given artistic director Thomas Jolly’s idiosyncratic opening show, set upon the Seine, one would have expected something interesting, if not on its own explicable.

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What vague narrative there is comes across as barely explicable.

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The supernatural aura of the season so far may well be explicable, tied to the fears and anxieties of a community that spends the winter padding around in the dark.

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Dr Marnerides said in his opinion there was "no evidence that a natural disease would explain his death" and concluded that death was "explicable on the basis of air embolism".

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