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Inscrutable
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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 See Also | 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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