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Unknowable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Impossible to know, especially being beyond the range of human experience or understanding: the unknowable mysteries of life.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not knowable.

n. Something that cannot be known.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Incapable of being known; not capable of being ascertained or discovered; above or beyond knowledge.

Unknown.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not knowable

Word Usage

"None of us could have known what it would be like (yes, Bub, unknowable is exactly the right word) – distracted by shiny things or not – and most of us understood that from the beginning."

Equivalent

transcendent

Antonym

knowable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

unattainable inscrutable inadmissible unfathomable unimaginable