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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 knowable
Familiarity information: UNKNOWABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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