unsearchable
English
Etymology
From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
unsearchable (comparative more unsearchable, superlative most unsearchable)
- That cannot be investigated or searched into; unknowable, inscrutable.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
- He chastiseth and corrects, as to Him seems best, in His deep, unsearchable, and secret judgment, and all for our good.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 103:
- Preachers warned […] that although God might sometimes make the meaning of his judgements clear they were normally unsearchable.
- That cannot be sought out or looked for.
- (computing, Internet) Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.
- 2010 August 11, Sian Rowe, quoting Λ, “Meet the bands whose /\/ /\ /\/\ € $ are made out of $¥ /\/\ ß 0 \ $”, in The Guardian[1]:
- “Having a band name like that makes me totally unsearchable,” says Rhode Island artist Λ, explaining that his name is pronounced “arc”, “but I like how using symbols means favouring an aesthetic choice over a more practical one. […] ”
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