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unguessable

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Not capable of being guessed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, in The Two Magics, London: Heinemann, Chapter 13, p. 101, What it was most impossible to get rid of was the cruel idea that, whatever I had seen, Miles and Flora saw more—things terrible and unguessable and that sprang from dreadful passages of intercourse in the past.

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- English guess Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English guessable English unguessable From un- + guessable.