explicable

From Middle French explicable, from Latin explicabilis, from explicō (“unfold, explain”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsplɪkəbəl/

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explicable

1. Able to be explained.

• (able to be explained): explainable, explicatable; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible

• inexplicable; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

Borrowed from Latin explicābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əks.pliˈkab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eks.pliˈka.ble]

explicable m or f (masculine and feminine plural explicables)

1. explicable, explainable

   Antonym: inexplicable

• “explicable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “explicable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “explicable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “explicable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin explicābilis.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spli.kabl/

explicable (plural explicables)

1. explicable, explainable

   Antonym: inexplicable

• expliquer

• “explicable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• explicábel

From Latin explicābilis.

explicable m or f (plural explicables)

1. explicable, explainable

   Antonym: inexplicable

• explicar

• “explicable”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

From Latin explicābilis.

• IPA^(key): /eɡspliˈkable/ [eɣ̞s.pliˈka.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: ex‧pli‧ca‧ble

explicable m or f (masculine and feminine plural explicables)

1. explicable, explainable

   Antonym: inexplicable

• “explicable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014