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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unaccountable \Un'ac*count"a*ble\, adjective
1. Not accountable or responsible; free from control. --South.
2. Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. -- {Un'ac*count"a*ble*ness}], noun -- {Un'ac*count"a*bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unaccountable
adjective
1: not to be accounted for or explained; "perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress"; "an unexplainable fear" [syn: {unexplainable}]
2: free from control or responsibility
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "unaccountable": adrift, afloat, agnostic, aimless, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, antic, baffling, bizarre, capricious, casual, causeless, chancy, changeable, changeful, chartered, designless, desultory, deviable, dicey, disobedient, dizzy, doubting, driftless, dysteleological, eccentric, enwrapped in mystery, equivocal, erratic, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fast and loose, favored, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, giddy, haphazard, headstrong, heady, hesitant, hesitating, immune, impetuous, impossible, impulsive, incalculable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inconsistent, inconstant, incredible, indecisive, indefinable, indemonstrable, indiscriminate, inexplicable, inextricable, infirm, inscrutable, insoluble, insolvable, insubordinate, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, lawless, let off, licensed, licentious, mazy, mercurial, mindless, moody, mutinous, mysterious, mystic, odd, peculiar, permitted, polysemous, privileged, promiscuous, purposeless, puzzling, rambling, rampant, random, reinless, released, restless, roving, scatterbrained, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, skeptical, spared, spasmodic, spineless, stochastic, strange, stray, touch-and-go, unanswerable, unbelievable, unbridled, uncanny, uncertain, unchecked, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, uncurbed, undefinable, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, undivinable, unexpected, unexplainable, unexplained, unfathomable, unfixed, unforeseeable, ungoverned, unheard-of, unimaginable, unintelligible, uninterpretable, unliable, unmotivated, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreined, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unsolvable, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubject, unsure, unusual, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weird, whimsical, wildcat, willful, wishy-washy
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