Definition of unknowable
:not knowable;
especially
:lying beyond the limits of human experience or understanding
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Examples of unknowable in a Sentence
a God whose nature is unknown and unknowable
Recent Examples of unknowable from the Web
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Like so many things in this intimate work and in life, the image feels both private — unknowable — and oddly familiar.
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How many Venezuelans still back Maduro, heir to his mentor Chavez’s revolution, is virtually unknowable, given the paucity of independent polling data and the partisan nature of every available source.
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Parsing our dreams teaches us how to separate what's real from what's unknowable.
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Others who managed to get out might soon return to unknowable pieces of rubble.
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There's the unknowable, and then there's the not-worth-knowing, and both may seem to be unworthy of the chase.
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Overseas, an unknowable number of people were not allowed to board flights en route to the United States.
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Whereas Haber, the editor-in-chief, was an intensely private man, virtually unknowable to his staff, Coulianos was a big-spending, flagrantly libidinous extrovert.
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In the show’s pilot episode Woods’s Jared is Gavin Belson’s unctuous, unknowable assistant, the guy in the Brooks Brothers clothes who’s more of a corporate stooge than anyone else on the Hooli campus.
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First Known Use of unknowable
14th century
UNKNOWABLE Defined for English Language Learners
unknowable
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Definition of unknowable for English Language Learners
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: not able to be known : not knowable
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