explicable
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5.5
- adjective
- /ɪkˈsplɪkəbl/
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explicable
- Her sudden departure was explicable by her need for a break after months of stress.
- fully explicable
- explicable in terms
When, when those things happen in real time, we have a level of righteous indignation that is both warranted, explicable and justified.
- When, when those things happen in real time, we have a level of righteous indignation that is both warranted, explicable and justified.
- But but it you should think of it as an industry rather than an explicable phenomenon.
- The revulsion to a book, the attachment to the book totally explicable.
- He says what is given and explicable in the way we encounter the phenomenon is called phenomenal.
- It's going to be explicable in terms of what it is that that that person or their culture wanted.
- Against the grain of the rather more brutal and utterly explicable non mysteries, right, of some of the stuff he says, OK.
Examples
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The results of the experiment were explicable when we examined the data closely.
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Ever had the insurance company deny a treatment or medication for no explicable reason despite a doctor's orders?
Blog text (13) -
All of these things are explicable only at a high level.
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The recent success of various Cultural Studies titles seems explicable to me on similar terms.
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As our world is increasingly explicable through science alone, is religion still relevant in our world?
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All of which makes the phenomenon less explicable, not more.
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For instance, the act of hiding behind yellow ribbons is explicable in terms of society's own despair associated with this altered state of consciousness.
Academic text (1993) -
All events in our precisely adjusted universe are lawfully wrought and lawfully explicable.
Blog text (14) -
Litwack argues eloquently for a more accessible and explicable scholarship in the schools and beyond, without abandoning scholarly standards.
Academic text (1995) -
The nuances of emotion and thought don't depend on insubstantial essence but are fully explicable as aspects of a material organism whose complexity is finally yielding to its own embodied intelligence.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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Clear and easy to see what it means or why someone feels that way
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3.7
Easy to understand
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3.7
A thing you can describe clearly or show its clear limits
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4.6
Something you can learn or understand
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5.0
Can be understood or made clear
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2.7
Able to be put into words
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5.7
Able to be understood or explained
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Easy to understand
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7.5
Most people can understand it easily
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6.6
Able to be worked out from the given information
Easy to understand
Someone can understand or solve it if they try
A choice or action you can explain by giving clear reasons
Antonyms
How Understandable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word explicable comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and plicare 'to fold' and is related to explain, so think of 'unfolding' a map to make something clear. That's why explicable means 'able to be explained'.