inexcusable

English

Etymology

From Middle French inexcusable, from Latin inexcusabilis.

Adjective

inexcusable (comparative more inexcusable, superlative most inexcusable)

1. not excusable [15th c.]

   Synonym: unexcusable

   Antonym: excusable

   • 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Network News: TPE under fire over "unacceptable" cancellations”, in RAIL, number 970, page 6:

     It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of England are having to experience such a dire level of service.

Derived terms

• inexcusableness
• inexcusably

Translations

not excusable

• Bulgarian: непростим (bg) (neprostim)
• Catalan: inexcusable (ca)
• Czech: neomluvitelný (cs) m
• Danish: utilgivelig
• Finnish: anteeksiantamaton (fi)
• French: inexcusable (fr)
• Galician: inescusable (gl), inescusábel (gl)
• German: unentschuldbar (de)
• Greek: αδικαιολόγητος (el) (adikaiológitos)

  Ancient: ἀναπολόγητος (anapológētos)

• Hungarian: megbocsáthatatlan (hu)
• Irish: doleithscéil
• Italian: inescusabile
• Polish: niewybaczalny (pl)
• Portuguese: inescusável (pt), indesculpável
• Spanish: inexcusable
• Welsh: anesgusodol

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French inexcusable, from Latin inexcusabilis.

Adjective

inexcusable (plural inexcusables)

1. inexcusable [1402]

   Antonym: excusable

Middle French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inexcusabilis.

Adjective

inexcusable m or f (plural inexcusables)

1. inexcusable [1402]

Descendants

• English: inexcusable
• French: inexcusable

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ineɡskuˈsable/ [i.neɣ̞s.kuˈsa.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (informal) /ineskuˈsable/ [i.nes.kuˈsa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: i‧nex‧cu‧sa‧ble

Adjective

inexcusable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inexcusables)

1. unavoidable

   Synonyms: inescapable, inevitable, insoslayable

   Antonym: evitable

2. inexcusable

   Antonym: excusable

   • 2017 December 25, “Reciprocidad [Reciprocity]”, in El Nacional‎^[1]:

     Más allá de sus intenciones futuras, el bribón e inexcusable acto de su candidatura –luego del ilegítimo e ilegal desconocimiento de la voluntad popular diáfanamente manifestada con el triunfo electoral de Juan Pablo Guanipa–, cuyo lógico resultado fue el de su aplastante y aleccionadora derrota, dejó un nuevo sabor amargo en el mundo opositor.

     Beyond his future intentions, his candidacy’s rogue and inexcusable action—after the illegitimate and illegal disregard for popular will clearly manifested with Juan Pablo Guanipa’s electoral triumph—logically resulted in his crushing, sobering defeat and left a new bitter taste in the opposition.

Derived terms

• inexcusablemente

Further reading

• “inexcusable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10