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  • adjective Not capable of being guessed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ guessable

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Examples

  • Apparently, as always, she had access to almost all of him; but now she did not have access to his unguessable torment, nor to the long parallel columns of mental book-keeping running their totalling balances from moment to moment, day and night, in his brain.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • Forgetful of safety, of his own life itself, entranced by the wonder of the unthinkable and unguessable thing, he raised his knife to strike heavily from a long stroke, but was prevented by

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • I have a friend who (for some unguessable reason) collects cellphones and LED watches and calculators and various other sorts of crap, and one of the things he was yammering on about was how uber-cool his “smartphone” was.

    Twitter, et al: redistributing the wealth 2009

  • Denise Gough's nanny is desolate, needy and capable: compelling because she is so unguessable.

    The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012

  • A child of intelligences, remote and unguessable, working corporally in metals, it indubitably was.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • A definite soul, or entity, or spirit-thing glimmered behind his dog's eyes, already fond with affection for this hair-grizzled god who talked with him he knew not what, but whose very talking carried delicious and unguessable messages to his heart.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • As usual, Madriani shines in the courtroom, and the last surprise is unguessable.

    Double Tap by Steve Martini: Book summary 2010

  • Thus Britain was presented with the prospect of the nation's food chain filling up with an unguessable number of animals born to cloned cows while the people in charge of our food standards couldn't agree if it was novel or not.

    Experts dispel safety fears over cloning of British beef 2010

  • The book is written as a list of questions and answers, and it's frustrating to try to answer the non-code questions because they are often unguessable:

    Programming Book: The Little Schemer Jonathan Aquino 2008

  • The book is written as a list of questions and answers, and it's frustrating to try to answer the non-code questions because they are often unguessable:

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jonathan Aquino 2008

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