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unaccountable Definition

un·ac·count·able (-ko̵untə bəl)

adjective

  1. that cannot be explained or accounted for; strange; mysterious
  2. not accountable; not responsible

unaccountable Related Forms
un′·ac·count′·abil·ity noun or un′·ac·count·able·ness un′·ac·count·ably adverb
unaccountable Synonyms

unaccountable

modif.

strange, odd, peculiar; see mysterious 2, unusual 1.

unaccountable Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: The party constitution is rewritten to make the leadership more thoroughly unaccountable to party members.

Modifies a noun

  • quango: The Forestry Commission controls vast tracts of hill land yet there is concern that it is an unaccountable quango.
  • bureaucrat: Surrendering such sovereignty to un-elected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels is not an option I could ever support.
  • bureaucracy: It has highlighted the concern that many in EU countries feel about an unaccountable bureaucracy.
  • elite: Hard to see or not, the fact of the matter is that an unaccountable financial elite has quietly seized power.
  • institution: Thus what remains to be seen is whether agility can out-do the brute force of powerful unaccountable institutions.
  • reason: For some unaccountable reason we all started to recite a few lines of poetry.

Modifying Another Word

  • democratically: Both the parliament and executive contain Scots who are absolutely and totally democratically unaccountable to the people whose lives they blight.
  • largely: However these men remained invisible and largely unaccountable for their behavior.
  • totally: My intervention is totally unaccountable in the world of beetles.
  • quite: A quite unaccountable tragedy left this fine gentleman bereft of his good humor.
  • completely: Such people are completely unaccountable to the local people whom they are supposed to serve.
  • too: We have a State that does too much, that interferes too much, that is too unaccountable.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: To one unacquainted with the character of the schooner, the proceedings of her crew must have seemed unaccountable as well as surprising.
  • remain: At law, they remain substantially unaccountable to any other creditor for the way in which a company's assets are dealt with.
  • become: The media, they think, have become unaccountable, over powerful and careless about accuracy.