explicable
explicable
Definition
ex·pli·cable (eks′pli kə bəl, ik splik′ə bəl)
explicable
Synonyms
explicable
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- ground: Bradshaw's Railroad Guide provided another decision readily explicable on competition grounds, but less clear on the requirements of originality for copyright.
- basis: The difference is not explicable on the basis of gross differences in the numbers of potential helpers in the cars.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Mach suggesting more than 3 dimensions to make things explicable.
Used with adjective complement
- become: On this basis, the anomalies described by Pye become explicable without invoking aliens from outer space.
- seem: That The Crimson ' s approach to the issue exactly mirrors that of the New York Sun hardly seems explicable as a coincidence.
- render: All are rendered explicable with reference to the triumph of a new moral and ideological atmosphere throughout the institutions of the Third Reich.
Modifying Another Word
- readily: We do not yet have the theory of everything, but most physical phenomena are readily explicable.
- easily: The tradition that the Apostle lived in Ephesus easily explicable.
- only: As such there is a tendency to see each social group as a self-contained entity only explicable in its own terms.
- not: Anything that is not explicable in any of these terms can of course be attributable to culture.
- partly: However, there is still a sizable, and at least partly explicable, variance in impacts across household characteristics.
- entirely: And how could a loving creator create creatures with such obvious defects, that are entirely explicable by natural selection?
Preposition: in
- term: Differences between diagnostic groups were not explicable in terms of age or verbal IQ.
- way: The increasingly complex designs of Shekhari temples are explicable in this way.
Preposition: by
- science: In today's society, we are constantly bombarded by claims that everything is ultimately explicable by science.
- theory: These facts are explicable by an unknown theory of UFOs and presumably concern these UFOs.
- reference: In my view, the submission of that invoice is explicable by reference to the events of the meeting of 29 June.
explicable Quotes
You explain nothing,O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
Browse dictionary entries near explicable
- expletory
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- explantation
- explant
- explanatory
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- explanative
- explanation
- explained
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