unaccountably
English edit
Etymology edit
unaccountable + -ly
Adverb edit
unaccountably (comparative more unaccountably, superlative most unaccountably)
- Not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable.
- 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.
- 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Maunsell Moguls in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
- 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.
Translations edit
not able to be explained logically. Without being accountable, or reasonable
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