UNACCOUNTABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaccountably mean? 

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

1. in an unaccountable manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNACCOUNTABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unaccountable manner

Context example:

in the book, a tycoon unaccountably becomes the hero's friend

Pertainym:

unaccountable (not to be accounted for or explained)

 Context examples 

Twice did I leave them purposely together in the course of the last morning, and each time did he most unaccountably follow me out of the room.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In short, I behaved myself so unaccountably, that they were all of the captain’s opinion when he first saw me, and concluded I had lost my wits.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was moody, too; unaccountably so; I more than once, when sent for to read to him, found him sitting in his library alone, with his head bent on his folded arms; and, when he looked up, a morose, almost a malignant, scowl blackened his features.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Catherine, by some chance or other, found her spirits so very much relieved by this conversation that she could not regret her being led on, though so unaccountably, to mention the circumstance which had produced it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I am not sure yet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)