UNSEARCHABLE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

unsearchable

adjective

Definition of unsearchable

as in inscrutable

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Recent Examples of unsearchable During Spotify’s news briefing, trust and safety director Lauren Hall shared that profiles will be private and unsearchable on the platform. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026 All that stuff is unsearchable in a way that someone could refer to in any real academic sense. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026 The message disappears into an unsearchable thread or gets lost entirely due to chat retention policies. — Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 His understanding is unsearchable. — John Biggs, Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2025 Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024 Amid outcry from Swift’s fans on social media, lawmakers and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, X made the Grammy winner’s name unsearchable on its platform over the weekend. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024 Taylor Swift became unsearchable on X, just days after deepfake images of her in pornographic and violent situations went viral. — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024 All the work Suffolk detectives had done on the case was unsearchable — accessible only to a few detectives who were relying on their own limited memories of the case. — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable

Adjective

But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Up in the directors’ box, sporting director Andrea Berta wore an inscrutable expression as the game flowed.

— Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of inscrutable

Adjective

Yet American students and scholars flocked in droves to theory, perceiving in its recondite abstractions a thrilling new way of understanding the world—even, some believed, of changing it.

— Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.

— Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

Definition of recondite

Adjective

Dragon math is an abstruse branch of wartime arithmetic.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
Chess can seem abstruse and forbidding to the uninitiated, but Himelfarb’s account of it is as readable and comprehensible as any more familiar sports story—or, for that matter, any narrative in which a bunch of ambitious people pursue a single goal.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026

Definition of abstruse

Adjective

But only one character provided an enigmatic answer when asked about their past this episode, and that’s Sheriff Kane.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Aug. 2026
As previously announced, Ulrich plays the enigmatic and manipulative cult leader, who pleads insanity and claims to be taking his commands directly from God.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of enigmatic

Adjective

On behalf of myself, our staff, and the Board of Directors, we are entirely devastated by this unfathomable loss to Country Music and the entire world.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
Building a racetrack in the middle of a city comes with an unfathomable number of logistical challenges.

— Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of unfathomable

Adjective

Baseball is a sport that thrives on statistics, no matter how esoteric, but there appears to be no record of a professional baseball player previously wearing a mechanical watch during a game.

— Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The rereleased games are fascinatingly esoteric, too, including the GBC versions of Croc, Croc 2, Earthworm Jim, and the Japan-only GB shmup, Chikyu Kaiho Gun Zas.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

Incomplete, corrupted, untimely, or unintelligible Submissions or Submission Forms will be disqualified.

— August 16, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026
When the surveillance footage resumes about an hour later, a man can be heard shouting, but the words are unintelligible, and a vehicle horn sounds.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of unintelligible

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