UNSEARCHABLE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

unsearchable

adjective

Definition of unsearchable

as in inscrutable

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Recent Examples of unsearchable All that stuff is unsearchable in a way that someone could refer to in any real academic sense. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026 The message disappears into an unsearchable thread or gets lost entirely due to chat retention policies. — Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 All the work Suffolk detectives had done on the case was unsearchable — accessible only to a few detectives who were relying on their own limited memories of the case. — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023 His understanding is unsearchable. — John Biggs, Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2025 Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror, former rival of the Daily News, is also unsearchable. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024 Taylor Swift became unsearchable on X, just days after deepfake images of her in pornographic and violent situations went viral. — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024 A week after topping Apple’s iTunes chart, popular versions of a Hong Kong protest anthem are unsearchable on the platform, as the government tries to outlaw the song in the city’s courts. — Kari Lindberg, Fortune, 14 June 2023 Amid outcry from Swift’s fans on social media, lawmakers and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, X made the Grammy winner’s name unsearchable on its platform over the weekend. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable

Adjective

Bodily experiences that made sense in 1776 are often inscrutable to people today.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Investors hung on his sometimes inscrutable observations.

— Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 22 June 2026

Definition of inscrutable

Adjective

There have been times when acts of atrocity have been going on — and gosh, some of those things are incomprehensible — yet humanity has found a way.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
Being joyful there — in the Dominican Republic, where small shacks and houses pieced together by junkyard scraps sometimes hold families with over a dozen members — seems incomprehensible.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 25 June 2026

Definition of incomprehensible

Adjective

Dragon math is an abstruse branch of wartime arithmetic.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
Chess can seem abstruse and forbidding to the uninitiated, but Himelfarb’s account of it is as readable and comprehensible as any more familiar sports story—or, for that matter, any narrative in which a bunch of ambitious people pursue a single goal.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026

Definition of abstruse

Adjective

The admittedly shy Belgian-Italian fashion designer Anthony Vaccarello entered the house of Saint Laurent as an enigmatic underdog.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Many aspects of the physics underlying GRBs remain enigmatic—but Rubin’s potential for discovering entirely new types of transients could soon offer astronomers a wealth of additional cosmic mysteries to solve.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026

Definition of enigmatic

Adjective

Two months of heavy rainfall resulted in then-unfathomable devastation that still reverberates today.

— Kansas City Public Library staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
To some, the Galatasaray forward’s selection in the starting line-up is unfathomable and is now being used to portray Nagelsmann as stubborn or unwilling to react to performances.

— Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Definition of unfathomable

Adjective

Afterwards, group members went on to form several other hugely meaningful outfits such as Slint, Gastr Del Sol, Bastro, Papa M and the For Carnation, transmuting Squirrel Bait’s Reagan-era aggression into more esoteric, impossible-to-classify sonic explorations.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 June 2026
This offers the do-it-yourself warrior a simple, direct route from antiquated lead-acid to state-of-the-art lithium without having to search for esoteric parts online.

— Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

The world premiere on Sunday – in the presence of Illumination boss Chris Meledandri and director Pierre Coffin, who is also the origin of the minions’ unintelligible chatter – kicks off one of the biggest Annecy Film Festival’s yet.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 June 2026
The adversaries made for a striking scene, exchanging insults in mutually unintelligible languages in the dead of night.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026

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