'Inscrutable' definitions:

Definition of 'inscrutable'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]

Definition of 'Inscrutable'

From: GCIDE
  • Inscrutable \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

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