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unaccountable

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unaccountable
adjective
1 for some unaccountable reason, the horses drawing the cart stopped short:
inexplicable, unexplainable, insoluble, unsolvable, incomprehensible, beyond comprehension, beyond understanding, unfathomable, impenetrable, puzzling, perplexing, baffling, bewildering, mystifying, mysterious, arcane, inscrutable, peculiar, unusual, curious, strange, freak, freakish, unparalleled, queer, odd, bizarre, extraordinary, astonishing, obscure, abstruse, enigmatic;
informal weird, fluky, freaky, spooky;
British, informal rum;
North American, informal off the wall, backasswards;
archaic wildering.
2 the Council is literally unaccountable to anyone:
not responsible, unanswerable, not answerable, not liable;
free, clear, exempt, immune;
out of control, unsupervised.
antonyms accountable, liable.
unaccountable Oxford Dictionary of English