explicable

Adjective

Meaning

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

accountable explainable simple responsible apparent logical accessible evident soluble straightforward manifest intelligible articulate amenable allowable
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Antonyms

inexplicable difficult complex advanced deep complicated
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Examples

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child. Stanisław Lem

The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin. Abbott Eliot Kittredge

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. Francis Parker Yockey

There is one particular property of living things, however, that I want to single out as explicable only by Darwinian selection. This property is the one that has been the recurring topic of this book: adaptive complexity. Richard Dawkins

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing important is completely explicable. Madeleine L'Engle

Close letter words and terms

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