inexplicable

Modifying Another Word

• seemingly: What lay behind Darwin's seemingly inexplicable reluctance to publish his views on this subject?
• utterly: I can hardly imagine anything more strange, more utterly inexplicable, than the situation in which I find myself.
• apparently: This apparently inexplicable flight is part of a pattern.
• otherwise: Or the otherwise inexplicable surge in wimmin's interest in David Beckham.
• perfectly: A curious lightness--a perfectly inexplicable buoyancy seemed to possess him.
• totally: A few dissenting voices of scholarship began to point to totally inexplicable evidence.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: The Association of British Drivers finds this situation inexplicable.

Modifies a noun

• buoyancy: A curious lightness--a perfectly inexplicable buoyancy seemed to possess him.
• footstep: Nevertheless, inexplicable footsteps are still heard in the locality.
• reason: Timothy: For some inexplicable reason all these devices failed.
• phenomenon: Why some can't work from the east on some occasions is an inexplicable phenomenon.
• mystery: We would be left with a third inexplicable mystery.
• murder: Onto a bunch of carefree tourists comes a cruel incident, an inexplicable murder shake the group.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Given that the film is rated R, these cuts seem inexplicable.
• appear: The decision appears inexplicable to many senior rail managers who hold no brief for First.
• remain: Ideas remain equally inexplicable, whether there are material things mysteriously giving rise to them or not.
• become: It's odd to think of, but perhaps I thus became as inexplicable to the old man as he had been to me.

Preposition: in

• term: This approach also explains something that is inexplicable in purely biological terms - the celibate priest.