inscrutable
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tə adjective
1.
incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
2.
not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable: an inscrutable smile.
3.
incapable of being seen through physically; physically impenetrable: the inscrutable depths of the ocean.
Related forms
in·scru·ta·bil·i·ty, in·scru·ta·ble·ness, noun
in·scru·ta·bly, adverb
Antonyms
1. comprehensible.
1. comprehensible.
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| —adj | |
| incomprehensible; mysterious or enigmatic | |
| [C15: from Late Latin inscrūtābilis, from Latin | |
| inscruta'bility | |
| —n | |
| in'scrutableness | |
| —n | |
| in'scrutably | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
inscrutable
mid-15c., from L.L. inscrutabilis, from in- "not" + scrutari "examine, ransack" (see scrutiny).
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Example sentences
The inscrutable senior leadership helps give an air of stability.
Above and over all, the mystery of the night and the desert places hovered inscrutable and implacable.
He prefers to keep the political contest a face-off between his own abstract legitimacy and a nameless and inscrutable heterodoxy.
He looked straight ahead, his almond-shaped face inscrutable beneath a peaked yellow-silk cap.
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