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Inscrutable

Inscrutable Meaning & Definition
Inscrutable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inscrutable?

[adj] of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inscrutable: cryptic | cryptical | deep | incomprehensible | inexplicable | mysterious | mystifying

Related Terms | Find terms related to Inscrutable: ambiguous | arcane | beyond understanding | cabalistic | Greek to one | impenetrable | inarticulate | incognizable | incoherent | incomprehensible | mystic | numinous | past comprehension | rambling | unaccountable | unconnected | unfathomable | unguessed | unintelligible | unknowable | unsearchable

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Inscrutable In Webster's Dictionary

\In*scru"ta*ble\, a. [L. inscrutabilis : cf. F. inscrutable. See {In-} not, and {Scrutiny}.] Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. --Beau. & Fl. Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. --De Quincey.

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