unexplanatoryadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexplicableness > [adjective] > not explaining
unexplanatorya1832
a1832 J. Bentham Chrestomathia in Wks. (1843) VIII. 171/2 The arbitrary and unexplanatory denomination given to them.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 168 The hasty and unexplanatory reply.
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