unaccountably
/ˌʌnəkˈaʊntəbli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.
Example Sentences
- "After all that hard work, he unaccountably failed to take out the patent."
- "The jury was unaccountably slow to reach a verdict. He was clearly innocent."
- "The number 392, very unaccountably, was never filled, and two of the sets of parts never appear to have been assembled at all, and were presumably kept as spares."
Etymology
Etymology tree English unaccountable Middle English -ly English -ly English unaccountably From unaccountable + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more unaccountably (comparative)
most unaccountably (superlative)