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

They are driven by the industry’s high and inscrutable prices.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
The Verge, a technology news publication, argued that the system’s name – Ask Delphi – encouraged users to see the system as an inscrutable source of superior knowledge.

— Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 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

Painfully aware of this, Shawn waited for one of the drunk old men to comment, heckle, make one of those incomprehensible jokes that drew rude laughter from adults.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Sure, the story is incomprehensible, and Dylan is far from a great actor.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 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

Disrupting their lives is an enigmatic woman named Cathy Ames, who Adam marries and who gives birth to Cal and Aron.

— Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
But of the leaders of those three mega-bands, perhaps the most mysterious remains Pete Townshend, The Who’s songwriter and enigmatic eminence, thrashing chords and smashing guitars while Roger Daltrey handled lead vocals.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of enigmatic

Adjective

And given Lambert’s own experiences, might even seem unfathomable.

— Katie McCurdy, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
That might seem almost unfathomable to anyone familiar with the last few years of FSU football, but there's still the lingering questions of Norvell's buyout now coupled with a new AD trying to get his footing in an absolute mess of a situation.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of unfathomable

Adjective

But then Mehmet is let go from his job teaching esoteric music practices to university students and the household’s sole steady source of income is gone.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Some say the public backlash to AI, and OpenAI, is partly because messaging from the leading labs can be esoteric, rather than grounded in the day-to-day benefits of AI, and in some cases, downright frightening.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

Then Mikayla makes an almost unintelligible crack about Doug, which sends Taylor back into a rage spiral.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Assuming viewers understood the history of English soccer — or even the offside rule — could make the broadcasts unintelligible for new fans who understood neither.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of unintelligible

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