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View synonyms for explicable

explicable

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

adjective

  1. capable of being explained.


explicable

/ ˈɛksplɪkəbəl; ɪkˈsplɪk- /

adjective

  1. capable of being explained
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • non·expli·ca·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of explicable1

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

Looking for the explicable in a case that seems so inexplicable is what the air crash investigators have to do.

To him who flees love, its nature is explicable; to you, who are still under its influence, it remains a riddle.

A large proportion of the good results are certainly fully explicable as the results of suggestion.

This horror is probably explicable as the result of a combination of simple horrors.

The last is well known to every penologist and explicable in general psychological terms.

Love had eyes, love had a voice that night,-love was the explicable magic lifting terrestrial to seraphic.

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