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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable. See Synonyms at mysterious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Incapable of being searched into or scrutinized; impenetrable to inquiry or investigation; incognizable: as, the ways of Providence are often inscrutable.
  2. Synonyms Impenetrable, undiscoverable, incomprehensible, unsearchable, mysterious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
  2. n. One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of an obscure nature

Etymologies

  1. From the Latin inscrutabilis, from in- ("not") + scrutare ("to examine"), corresponding to in- +‎ scrutable (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + scrūtārī, to scrutinize; see scrutiny. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb Good one! Nov 6, 2009

  • jorge999 Those Catholic girls liked to tease, but without a ring they were inscrutable Nov 6, 2009

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