unknowable

Speech parts

1. unknowable - Noun

2. unknowable - Adjective

Meaning

not knowable

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

mystic fantastic rare unknown deep hidden uncertain strange extraordinary ambiguous obscure mysterious opaque cryptic enigmatic
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Antonyms

knowable common normal lucid apparent broad
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Examples

Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce

Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. Rene Magritte

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. Parmenides

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable. Ken MacLeod

Close letter words and terms

unknotty unknow unknowability unknowableness unknowably unknowen