Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not so as to be known.

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  • adverb In an unknowable way; ineffably.

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Examples

  • Unlike Apple's App Store, which features an unknowably massive cornucopia of free content along with stuff you actually have to pay for, Xbox Live's curt nod in the direction of giveaways stretches as far as game demos and the odd new hat for your avatar.

    This week's new games 2011

  • Chair Entertainment Group, £4.99With a job, let alone children, Skyrim is unknowably vast.

    Games of 2011 that will last through 2012 2012

  • Once infected a person looses their ability to sleep – they have waking dreams, hallucinations, and are unknowably tired, but they will never sleep again.

    Review: Sleepless by Charlie Huston Neth 2010

  • In fact, all of Russia would feel the shock waves, because some unknowably huge number of subway passengers consists of people trying to transfer between train stations or airports in the capital city, the hub of the nation, so they can get from Novosibirsk to Novorossiysk, or from Velikiye Luki to Ust Usinsk, or from Omsk to Tomsk.

    From Russia with ease Will Englund 2010

  • Once infected a person looses their ability to sleep – they have waking dreams, hallucinations, and are unknowably tired, but they will never sleep again.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Neth 2010

  • So black people are just like "regular" people except they are so unknowably different that trying to render them in prose is futile.

    Summer delagar 2009

  • This room is built into the side of a hill, and eventually in an unknowably distant future some of the wall might be knocked down to do some proper cave aging.

    A Brewery Awaits 2009

  • This room is built into the side of a hill, and eventually in an unknowably distant future some of the wall might be knocked down to do some proper cave aging.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Either way, it's unknowably sad for all the families.

    and other living things 2007

  • Either way, it's unknowably sad for all the families.

    romulan ale 2007

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