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单词 explicable
释义

explicable

/ɪkˈsplɪkəb(ə)l / /ɛkˈsplɪkəb(ə)l/ /ˈɛksplɪˌkəb(ə)l /
adjective
Able to be accounted for or understood: differences in schools were not explicable in terms of differences in intake...
  • Fear makes violence more explicable and hatred more understandable.
  • The trend is explicable in terms of a set of often unrelated and often seemingly innocuous market decisions and administrative policies.
  • But the moral status of animals, I suggest, also generates a responsibility that may not be fully explicable in terms of animals' interests.

Synonyms

explainable, interpretable, definable;
understandable, comprehensible, accountable, intelligible
rare exponible

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin explicabilis, from explicare (see explicate).

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