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UNKNOWABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unknowable mean? 

UNKNOWABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNKNOWABLE has 1 sense:

1. not knowableplay

  Familiarity information: UNKNOWABLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNKNOWABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not knowable

Context example:

the unknowable mysteries of life

Similar:

transcendent (beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding)

Antonym:

knowable (capable of being known)


 Context examples 


After all, pure spirit was unknowable, a thing to be sensed and divined only; nor could it express itself in terms of itself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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