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Inexplainable vs Unexplained - What's the difference?

inexplainable | unexplained |

As adjectives the difference between inexplainable and unexplained

is that inexplainable is that cannot be explained while unexplained is not explained of unknown cause or origin.

inexplainable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That cannot be explained.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, title=The Open Door, and the Portrait., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The rider himself after a time becomes infected with this inexplainable desperation of terror, and I suppose I must have done so; but for a time I kept the upper hand. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Anna Katharine Green, title=The House of the Whispering Pines, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=

    unexplained

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not explained. Of unknown cause or origin.