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UNACCOUNTABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not to be accounted for or explained
Example:
an unexplainable fear
Synonyms:
unaccountable; unexplainable
Classified under:
Similar:
incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Free from control or responsibility
Classified under:
Similar:
irresponsible (showing lack of care for consequences)
Context examples:
No; some unaccountable one.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When viewed in the light of formal logic, there is not one thing of which to be ashamed; but nevertheless a shame rises within me at the recollection, and in the pride of my manhood I feel that my manhood has in unaccountable ways been smirched and sullied.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I forgot to mention that he would talk to himself sometimes, and grin, and clench his fist, and grind his teeth, and pull his hair in an unaccountable manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To Marianne, indeed, the meeting between Edward and her sister was but a continuation of that unaccountable coldness which she had often observed at Norland in their mutual behaviour.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And furthermore, such was the strangeness of it, White Fang experienced an unaccountable sensation of pleasure as the hand rubbed back and forth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
During our journey he made me observe the several methods used by farmers in managing their lands, which to me were wholly unaccountable; for, except in some very few places, I could not discover one ear of corn or blade of grass.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The most unaccountable business!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It is unaccountable!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“A most unaccountable delusion it is!” cried Miss Murdstone.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
