unknowable
adjective
un·know·able
ˌən-ˈnō-ə-bəl 
: not knowable
especially
: lying beyond the limits of human experience or understanding
Examples of unknowable in a Sentence
a God whose nature is unknown and unknowable
Recent Examples on the Web
What Hemings secured for herself through Jefferson, with an unknowable titration of guile and disgust and affection, Luce secures similarly through Mike.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
In coastal cities from Naples to Venice, the sea glitters tantalizingly in the afternoon sun, but beneath its surface lurks an unknowable expanse of bottomless blackness.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
The light instead produces a Lovecraftian eye, unknowable colors straight from the darkest depths of the human spirit.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Its rejection of the player feels somehow intentional—the result of meekness, perhaps, or some unknowable thought process.
—Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
Moreover, these programs remain a black box, their internal logic unknowable, though some researchers have ideas about how to change that.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
North Korea, though the subject of endless fascination among both beltway pundits and TMZ aficionados, seemed eerily unknowable.
—Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
The world’s future population size is ultimately unknowable.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Whether anyone other than Putin can capably manage these instruments is unknowable, but with or without Putin, these instruments align with many vested interests and many past precedents.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
In coastal cities from Naples to Venice, the sea glitters tantalizingly in the afternoon sun, but beneath its surface lurks an unknowable expanse of bottomless blackness.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
The light instead produces a Lovecraftian eye, unknowable colors straight from the darkest depths of the human spirit.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Its rejection of the player feels somehow intentional—the result of meekness, perhaps, or some unknowable thought process.
—Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
Moreover, these programs remain a black box, their internal logic unknowable, though some researchers have ideas about how to change that.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
North Korea, though the subject of endless fascination among both beltway pundits and TMZ aficionados, seemed eerily unknowable.
—Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
The world’s future population size is ultimately unknowable.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Whether anyone other than Putin can capably manage these instruments is unknowable, but with or without Putin, these instruments align with many vested interests and many past precedents.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
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“Unknowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unknowable. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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unknowable
adjective
un·know·able
ˌən-ˈnō-ə-bəl
ˈən-
: not knowable
some facts in the case may remain unknowable
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