unaccountably
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unaccountable + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unaccountably (comparative more unaccountably, superlative most unaccountably)
- Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.
- After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent.
- The jury was unaccountably slow to reach a verdict. He was clearly innocent.
- 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Maunsell Moguls in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
- The number 392, very unaccountably, was never filled, and two of the sets of parts never appear to have been assembled at all, and were presumably kept as spares.
Translations
[edit]not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable
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