Explicable and Knotty

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Explicable adjective - Capable of having the reason for or cause of determined.

Usage example: the mystery of those strange noises became quite explicable once we realized that a colony of bats had taken up residence

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Knotty is an antonym for explicable.

Knotty adjective - Having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated.

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Explicable is an antonym for knotty.

Nearby Words: knot, knotted, knotting

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Knotty and Explicable. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/explicable/knotty

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