UNSEARCHABLE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

unsearchable

adjective

Definition of unsearchable

as in inscrutable

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Recent Examples of unsearchable During Spotify’s news briefing, trust and safety director Lauren Hall shared that profiles will be private and unsearchable on the platform. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026 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 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 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 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsearchable

Adjective

For example, black box uses the concept of an opaque container to give a clear structure to the concept of hidden or inscrutable inner workings.

— Trent Wintermeier, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
They are driven by the industry’s high and inscrutable prices.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of inscrutable

Adjective

Yet American students and scholars flocked in droves to theory, perceiving in its recondite abstractions a thrilling new way of understanding the world—even, some believed, of changing it.

— Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.

— Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

Definition of recondite

Adjective

Days before the openings, the prospect of showing across his hometown still seemed to Hodges about as incomprehensible as a dream.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Stanton’s confession ends up being incomprehensible to anyone but himself—an irony that McCarthy, with his partiality for secret codes, seems to take great pleasure in.

— Max Callimanopulos, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 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

Swamped by allegations of fraud, the actions of the company and its enigmatic CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, shone a harsh light on problems with scientific start-ups.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026
That's especially prevalent in the Oversized Graphic T-Shirt with enigmatic dates on the back -- those are already causing a stir in the fan community.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of enigmatic

Adjective

Taken together, these two mistakes represented an almost-unfathomable breach of basic diligence.

— Daniel Duane, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The Baltimore Ravens were in a goal-to-go setting, trailing 23-15 and needing to do the statistically unfathomable — according to CBS, teams behind by 8-plus points inside the final minute had lost 581 straight games.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of unfathomable

Adjective

Solid-state physics in its early days was just an esoteric exercise to satisfy curiosity.

— Mattanjah de Vries, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Christie’s confidence that the canvas will hit its mark is based on a far more esoteric criterion, as Max Carter, the house’s global chair of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, told Artnet News.

— News Desk, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

In fact, it is rooted in the same rhetoric as the black box metaphor, which similarly blurs the complex aspects of AI by framing inner workings as confined and unintelligible.

— Trent Wintermeier, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
Painter expressed concern that paper trail may one day become unintelligible if AI models begin using their own language to track their steps.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of unintelligible

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