What's the difference between inexplicable and unfathomable?

Inexplicable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
  • (3) Our tolerance for this bizarre and inexplicable system of reward is the most extreme but far from the most damaging effect of the hold that the City has on the country.
  • (4) This lag in T. pisiformis prevalence was largely inexplicable to us.
  • (5) Gerard Piqué slid in and inexplicably handled Marcelo’s cross.
  • (6) It is easy understand that its appearance should turn out to be a complication in the treatment of hypoparathyroidisms or in vitamin D resistant rickets, but its persistance as a purely iatrogenic diseases is at present inexplicable.
  • (7) An inexplicable finding was a preponderance of right nipple with tumour.
  • (8) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
  • (9) In addition to the possible role of the renin system there remain inexplicable situations in its regulation that cannot be explained by ACTH and renin.
  • (10) The Hollywood Reporter reported that , since April, Hail-Hydra.com has inexplicably redirected to the president’s profile page on the White House website.
  • (11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
  • (12) As with all Yang's art, one is both captivated and bewildered by its progression of memorable images and inexplicable incidents.
  • (13) But Bean said it was inexplicable that Vithlani received more than $12m and that most of this was channelled via two offshore companies, one in the British Virgin Islands and the other in Panama.
  • (14) Inexplicably, instead of rolling or walking the ball into an empty net, Giggs lofted a shot over the bar.
  • (15) Parents are often the last ones to spot the radicalisation of their children; a view that might seem inexplicable at first, but makes sense when you consider the context in which such radicalisation takes place.
  • (16) Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase activities were intermittently, and inexplicably, increased for months after the transplant.
  • (17) Clinical and X-ray exploration revealed a still asymptomatic small-cell bronchial carcinoma, so that the otherwise inexplicable skin lesions made an acrokeratotic paraneoplastic syndrome of the Bazex type seem most likely.
  • (18) The concentrations of both oestrone and oestradiol remained consistently low for 10 years after the menopause, but oestradiol concentrations inexplicably increased in the last two decades, with levels at the lower end of normal range for reproductive women in six patients.
  • (19) Analysis of the records of skin cancers for Bristol and Oxford in England showed that during the first decade of this period incidence and mortality for the skin carcinomas, basal cell and squamous cell, fell in line with theory; but both incidence and mortality for melanoma inexplicably rose.
  • (20) I save it for last,” he told the New York Times earlier this year, in an article exploring China’s inexplicable devotion to the tune.

Unfathomable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
  • (2) Told of Pistorius's denial, Levitt replied: "Not only is she standing by what he said, but she finds it unfathomable that he denies it in front of a number of witnesses.
  • (3) A man with a machine gun chatting to a protester about midgies might seem delightfully British, but it also emphasises the surrealness of Trident and how we resort to small talk because its destructive potential is so unfathomably big.
  • (4) Given that Solskjaer, who is in charge of Molde, has spoken in the past about Sir Alex Ferguson advising him to choose an owner rather than a club when it comes to management, it seems difficult to believe that the former Manchester United striker would warm to the idea of working under Tan, whose reputation for interfering and making unfathomable decisions now precedes him in the world of football.
  • (5) Unfathomable, futuristic madness: that's what made me want to visit Japan.
  • (6) I had no idea what I was looking at: the one thing I did know was that this unfathomable futuristic madness was precisely the sort of thing I'd come to Japan to see.
  • (7) For reasons which are unfathomable Daniel became a target for derision, abuse and systematic cruelty."
  • (8) Cutting that $9bn spent on private schools – or transferring that money to public schools – would end the wasteful elite private school "arms race" where unfathomable amounts have been spent on gyms, pools and the like.
  • (9) Gordon Brown's new bag, made - unfathomably - by shipyard apprentices at a naval dockyard, is actually made from pine, like most good coffins.
  • (10) Leading environmental figures, including the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, have condemned government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable".
  • (11) It is unfathomable - and it really all goes back to Ryan's decision to throw the ball deep instead of running the ball and killing clock.
  • (12) The frontrunner is a self-styled “independent”: Zac Goldsmith, the unfathomably wealthy, roll-up-smoking Tory environmentalist who was until recently Richmond Park’s Conservative MP and the party’s candidate for London mayor.
  • (13) Rich countries are (based on low debt vs GDP) ... Russia, China, one or two North African countries, Indonesia, some South American countries, a couple of Southern African countries, Australia and a few Middle Eastern countries, Developed countries are (based solely on GDP ignoring unfathomable debt for some of them) ... North America, Northern Europe, Japan, Australia and a few Middle Eastern countries.
  • (14) Clashes here with US forces were such a centrepiece of the Iraq war that the prospect of the US air force now giving cover to the group in coming weeks seemed unfathomable for many of those on the sidelines of Saturday's parade.
  • (15) Early single Manners, with its unfathomably wonderful chorus full of down-pitched tambourines, was the sort of song you sense would never go anywhere.
  • (16) During millennia, the mechanisms of procreation have constituted for man an unfathomable and irritating riddle.
  • (17) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
  • (18) He finds the lack of media interest in his wife’s jazz album unfathomable, and interprets his six million votes in 2004 as proof that today’s public “want me to make music”.
  • (19) he marvels plaintively, pretending to find such interest in him unfathomable. "
  • (20) Of course, as professionals we need this signing and we expect to have that shortly.” Cellino’s Elland Road reign, which has seen him employ six managers, has been littered with unfathomable U-turns and outspoken outbursts, lending weight to the theory the 59-year-old could decide to sell the club to someone other than the fans.