UNACCOUNTABLE DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
unaccountable adj 1: not to be accounted for or explained; "perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress"; "an unexplainable fear" [syn: unaccountable, unexplainable] 2: free from control or responsibility Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) unaccountable adjective Date: 1643 1. not to be accounted for ; inexplicable, strange 2. not to be called to account ; not responsible • unaccountability noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary unaccountable 1. 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] English Explanatory Dictionary unaccountable ˈʌnəˈkauntəbl adj. 1 unable to be explained. 2 unpredictable or strange in behaviour. 3 not responsible. øøunaccountability n. unaccountableness n. unaccountably adv. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Unaccountable \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms unaccountable a. 1. Strange, inexplicable, mysterious, incomprehensible, unintelligible. 2. Irresponsible. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) unaccountable ˈʌnəˈkauntəbl adj. 1 unexplained, inexplicable, unexplainable, mysterious, inscrutable, incomprehensible, unintelligible, strange, puzzling, baffling, peculiar, odd, bizarre, unfathomable: I found it unaccountable that anyone would arrive for an appointment four hours early. 2 not answerable, not responsible: How can you have a governmental committee that is unaccountable to anyone? 3 weird, unheard-of, extraordinary, unusual, unorthodox, uncanny: Sophie has unaccountable powers of perception. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 179 Moby Thesaurus words for "unaccountable": adrift, afloat, agnostic, aimless, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, antic, baffling, bizarre, capricious, casual, causeless, chancy, changeable, changeful, chartered, designless, desultory, deviable, dicey, disobedient, dizzy, doubting, driftless, dysteleological, eccentric, enwrapped in mystery, equivocal, erratic, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fast and loose, favored, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, giddy, haphazard, headstrong, heady, hesitant, hesitating, immune, impetuous, impossible, impulsive, incalculable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inconsistent, inconstant, incredible, indecisive, indefinable, indemonstrable, indiscriminate, inexplicable, inextricable, infirm, inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, insubordinate, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, lawless, let off, licensed, licentious, mazy, mercurial, mindless, moody, mutinous, mysterious, mystic, odd, peculiar, permitted, polysemous, privileged, promiscuous, purposeless, puzzling, rambling, rampant, random, reinless, released, restless, roving, scatterbrained, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, skeptical, spared, spasmodic, spineless, stochastic, strange, stray, touch-and-go, unanswerable, unbelievable, unbridled, uncanny, uncertain, unchecked, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, uncurbed, undefinable, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, undivinable, unexpected, unexplainable, unexplained, unfathomable, unfixed, unforeseeable, ungoverned, unheard-of, unimaginable, unintelligible, uninterpretable, unliable, unmotivated, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreined, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unsolvable, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubject, unsure, unusual, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weird, whimsical, wildcat, willful, wishy-washy |
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