inscrutable
Meanings
Plural: inscrutables
Adjective Satellite
- of an obscure nature; ; ; ; - Rachel Carson
- "the inscrutable workings of Providence"
Adj
- Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
Noun
- One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + scrūtō (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable
Synonyms
abstruse, Chinese, cryptic, cryptical, deep, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, Greek, impenetrable, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, inscrutable, insensible, insoluble, insolvable, mysterious, mystifying, nonunderstandable, obscure, retruse, thick, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable, ununderstandable
Scrabble Score: 15
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