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unknowable

[ UK /ʌnnˈə‍ʊəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ənˈnoʊəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not knowable
    the unknowable mysteries of life

How To Use unknowable In A Sentence

  • Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans; beyond it - unknowable nomads!
  • Most generally, Locke had argued famously that real essences are unknowable.
  • Otherwise this unknowable is not only compatible with knowledge but is the efficacity of knowledge, perhaps of all possible knowledge, assuming the world is like this (as opposed to the Blakean world). Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
  • Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
  • Peter was well ahead of them, walking alone, his head down, his calculations and reactions, as always, unknowable. BARN BLIND
  • The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable.
  • All new technologies generate fears of unknown and perhaps unknowable potential harm, but reassurance is demanded nonetheless.
  • An unknowable, harsh and cruel society had destroyed his father for no apparent reason.
  • The untold stories between then and now are multiple and unknowable.
  • Its soul is every bit as mazey and unknowable as its various streets and lanes. Times, Sunday Times
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