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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective inscrutable has 1 sense
- inscrutable(s = adj.all) cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying - of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" Derived form noun inscrutability1
CIDE DICTIONARY
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. [1913 Webster]
"'T is not in man
To yield a reason for the will of Heaven
Which is inscrutable." [1913 Webster]
To yield a reason for the will of Heaven
Which is inscrutable." [1913 Webster]
"Waiving a question so inscrutable as this."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
inscrutable, adj. wholly mysterious, impenetrable.
Derivative
inscrutability n. inscrutableness n. inscrutably adv.
Etymology
ME f. eccl.L inscrutabilis (as IN-(1), scrutari search: see SCRUTINY)
THESAURUS
inscrutable
Greek to one, ambiguous, arcane, beyond understanding, cabalistic, impenetrable, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, mystic, numinous, past comprehension, rambling, unaccountable, unconnected, unfathomable, unguessed, unintelligible, unknowable, unsearchableROGET THESAURUS
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Unintelligibility
N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.
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