unexplained

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English explained

English unexplained

From un- + explained.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnd

Adjective

unexplained (not comparable)

1. Not explained; of unknown cause or origin.
   • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

     Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.

Derived terms

• sudden unexplained death syndrome
• sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome
• unexplained aerial phenomenon
• unexplainedly
• unexplainedness

Translations

not explained

• Belarusian: нетлумача́ны (njetlumačány), невытлумача́ны (njevytlumačány)
• Danish: uforklarlig
• Dutch: onverklaard (nl)
• Finnish: selittämätön
• French: inexpliqué (fr)
• German: unerklärt
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀτράνωτος (atránōtos)

• Hindi: अवर्णित (avarṇit)
• Italian: inesplicato
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uforklarlig

• Polish: niewyjaśniony
• Russian: необъяснённый (neobʺjasnjónnyj)
• Ukrainian: неви́яснений (nevýjasnenyj), непоясне́нний (nepojasnénnyj)

See also

• unexplainable
• inexplicable