INEXPLICABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexplicably mean? 

• INEXPLICABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INEXPLICABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a manner differing from the usual or expected

  Familiarity information: INEXPLICABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXPLICABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner differing from the usual or expected

Synonyms:

curiously; inexplicably; oddly; peculiarly

Context example:

he's behaving rather peculiarly

Pertainym:

inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)

 Context examples 

A very rare pleomorphic adenoma of the salivary glands that metastasizes inexplicably, despite the benign histopathologic features.

(Metastasizing Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Salivary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-eating dinosaurs made a living.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

More than that, Agnes, I knew, almost as if I had known this story, that there was something inexplicably gentle and softened, surrounding you; something that might have been sorrowful in someone else (as I can now understand it was), but was not so in you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)