explicable

[ ek-spli-kuh-buh l, ik-splik-uh-buh l ]

/ ˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being explained.

RELATED WORDS

Nearby words

explementary, explementary angle, expletive, expletively, expletory, explicable, explicandum, explicans, explicate, explication, explication de texte

Origin of explicable

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

Related forms

non·ex·pli·ca·ble, adjective

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Examples from the Web for explicable

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
In the moral, as in the physiological world, there are instances of fertility that are not yet explicable.
The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study|Jean-Marie Guyau
These forms are only explicable by the interchange of letters known as Athbash, Albam, etc.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel|F. W. Farrar
But that no collected edition of his letters appeared till very shortly before this is explicable without any difficulty.
A Letter Book|George Saintsbury

So noticeably a harmony seemed to be explicable only by a unity of origin.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life|Emile Durkheim
What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection?
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews|Thomas Henry Huxley

British Dictionary definitions for explicable

explicable

/ (ˈɛksplɪkəbəl, ɪkˈsplɪk-) /

adjective

capable of being explained

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