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Webster's 1828 DictionaryUNACCOUNT'ABLE, a. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)adj Merriam Webster'sadjective Date: 1643 Oxford Reference Dictionaryadj. 1 unable to be explained. 2 unpredictable or strange in behaviour. 3 not responsible. Derivatives: unaccountability n. unaccountableness n. unaccountably adv. Webster's 1913 DictionaryUnaccountable Un`ac*count"a*ble, a. 1. Not accountable or responsible; free from control. --South. 2. Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. -- Un`ac*count"a*ble*ness], n. -- Un`ac*count"a*bly, adv. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary1. Something that is unaccountable does not seem to have any sensible explanation. For some unaccountable reason, it struck me as extremely funny... = inexplicable ADJ: usu ADJ n • unaccountably And then, unaccountably, she giggled... ADV 2. If you describe a person or organization as unaccountable, you are critical of them because they are not responsible to anyone for their actions, or do not feel they have to explain their actions to anyone. Economic policy in Europe should not be run by an unaccountable committee of governors of central banks. ADJ [disapproval] Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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