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explicable

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of explicable

capable of having the reason for or cause of determined

  • the mystery of those strange noises became quite explicable once we realized that a colony of bats had taken up residence
Synonyms of explicable

answerable, explainable, resolvable, soluble, solvable
Words Related to explicable

analyzable, decipherable

feasible, workable
Near Antonyms of explicable

difficult, inextricable, knotty

impossible, insuperable

absurd, fantastic (also fantastical), outlandish, preposterous, ridiculous
Antonyms of explicable

hopeless, inexplicable, insoluble, insolvable, unexplainable, unresolvable, unsolvable

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