INEXCUSABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexcusable mean? 

• INEXCUSABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INEXCUSABLE has 2 senses:

1. without excuse or justification

2. not excusable

  Familiarity information: INEXCUSABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXCUSABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without excuse or justification

Similar:

indefensible; insupportable; unjustifiable; unwarrantable; unwarranted (incapable of being justified or explained)

Antonym:

excusable (capable of being overlooked)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not excusable

Synonyms:

inexcusable; unforgivable

Similar:

unpardonable (not admitting of pardon)

 Context examples 

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It would be most inexcusable to do otherwise, as my own mind is quite made up.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Let these gentlemen hear of your most inexcusable conduct.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They betray an unfortunate state of mind: they merit severe reproof: they would seem inexcusable, but that it is the duty of man to forgive his fellow even until seventy-and-seven times.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was inexcusable, incomprehensible!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In fact, Anne could never see the crape round his hat, without fearing that she was the inexcusable one, in attributing to him such imaginations; for though his marriage had not been very happy, still it had existed so many years that she could not comprehend a very rapid recovery from the awful impression of its being dissolved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Considering everything, therefore, I hope, foolish as our engagement was, foolish as it has since in every way been proved, it was not at the time an unnatural or an inexcusable piece of folly.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)