unknowable
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7.4
- adjective
- /ʌnˈnoʊəbl/
:
incognoscible
- You will learn that life is the unknown and the unknowable.
- unknown and unknowable
- humanly unknowable
- unknowable future
That's breaking down to be replaced by an unknowable world of strangers.
- That's breaking down to be replaced by an unknowable world of strangers.
- This unknowable essence is so vast and so unknowable and beyond human understanding.
- Indeed, according to many scholars of the day, the heavens were unknowable to our feeble mortal minds.
- Because after all, an audience of millions is as unknowable as a single reader, truly actually.
- Terrifying, unknowable things happen, but Cecil doesn't let it bother.
- The rest is unknown or unknowable.
- And, you know, it's a we're just like on the edge of a very unknowable future.
- People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source for distant and unknowable reasons.
- So the question is at some level irrelevant, but another level I think we would have to agree it's unknowable.
- So there is a real commonality here in Sufism, Karbala and Christian mysticism that there's a deep unknowable unity at the base of things.
- And I'm not saying in a woo woo way, but in an appreciation for the unknown as somebody who's trying to understand the unknowable, I guess.
Examples
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Future generations of women are going to be just as unknowable to our Hectors as past ones were.
Fiction book (1993) -
The reasons for which are unknown and unknowable.
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Whatever could not be known by science was either unknowable or not worth knowing.
Academic text (1991) -
And in this way, holy and unknowable.
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That is the pull of the unknowable.
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We give in to love... because it gives us some sense of what is unknowable.
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The thing about perfection is that it's unknowable.
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Through this contact, otherwise unknowable secrets about the nature of the cosmos are revealed to a human being.
Academic text (1999) -
Their profound insight lay in knowing that what they worshiped was unknowable and could not be represented physically.
Academic text (1995) -
The future is inherently unknowable, and efforts to get it exactly right are futile.
Synonyms
∞
8.6
Not clear enough to understand
47
7.8
Hard to explain or understand
46
8.8
Difficult or impossible to understand
23
8.6
Very hard to understand or measure how deep something is
19
7.0
Something people cannot understand or find a clear reason for
12
8.9
Hard to understand because it shows no clear meaning or feeling
7
6.8
Not possible to reply to in a way that convinces people
4
6.9
Hard to describe or explain in words
3
6.8
Hard to describe exactly in words
1
7.4
Hard to explain or understand
1
8.6
Difficult to understand even after thinking about it
1
8.2
Not possible to understand or explain
1
9.9
Too deep or mysterious to understand
1
7.6
Hard to know what someone thinks or feels
Not possible for people to know or understand
Not possible for people to know or understand
Hard to understand or explain
Very hard to understand
Too small, slow, or quiet for people to notice
Not possible to find out for certain
Not possible to find or learn where something is
Impossible to describe exactly
Antonyms
How Knowable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unknowable is built from three simple parts: un- 'not', know 'to understand', and -able 'can be'. So it means 'not able to be known', like a locked box you cannot open.