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BNC: 23589 COCA: 19935

unknowable

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unknowable /ˌʌnˈnowəbəl/ adjective
unknowable
/ˌʌnˈnowəbəl/
adjective
Learner's definition of UNKNOWABLE
: not able to be known : not knowable不可知的;不可认知的
BNC: 23589 COCA: 19935

unknowable

adjective

un·​know·​able ˌən-ˈnō-ə-bəl How to pronounce unknowable (audio)
: not knowable
especially : lying beyond the limits of human experience or understanding
unknowability noun

Example Sentences

a God whose nature is unknown and unknowable
Recent Examples on the Web His account demonstrates an urge to know the unknowable, to place the chaos of disintegration and violence into a kind of order. New York Times, 4 June 2022 But its protagonist is not easy to love, especially at first, and his motivations for much of the season are generally unknowable. David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022 His death means answers about her close friend’s final days are now forever unknowable. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022 There remain big, unanswered—and perhaps now forever unknowable—questions even about the central Watergate break-in itself: Who ultimately ordered it? Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 17 June 2022 The reason the outcome of that change was unknowable was because of how the solutions on top of CRMs, and on many business systems, are done: using no-code. Rami Tamir, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022 The Frank corpus, for its part, coheres in one hapless creature’s attempts to amuse himself in between horrifying encounters with monsters that are both unknowable and the building blocks of the world around him. Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2022 In a streaming and on-demand world, the total reach of the hearings to date is unknowable, but many tens of millions of Americans have soaked up the committee's findings, which is no small thing in a fractured media space... Brian Stelter, CNN, 20 July 2022 Those reasons are mostly unknowable and uninteresting. Jenny Singer, Glamour, 23 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unknowable was in the 14th century
BNC: 23589 COCA: 19935

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