explicable

American  

[ek-spli-kuh-buhl, ik-splik-uh-buhl] / ˈɛk splɪ kə bəl, ɪkˈsplɪk ə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being explained.

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explicable British  

/ ˈɛksplɪkəbəl, ɪkˈsplɪk- /

adjective

1. capable of being explained

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Other Word Forms

• nonexplicable adjective

Etymology

Origin of explicable

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

Example Sentences

At the beginning, he shows off a kind of narrative gun, by warning that “strange and not entirely explicable things are nowadays happening in the world of wind.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

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.

From Los Angeles Times

What vague narrative there is comes across as barely explicable.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times