inscrutable
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.
Examples
- His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + scrūtō (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable
Synonyms
cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying, Chinese, Greek, abstruse, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, impenetrable, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, inscrutable, insensible, insoluble, insolvable, nonunderstandable, obscure, retruse, thick, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable, ununderstandable
Scrabble Score: 15
inscrutable: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinscrutable: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
inscrutable: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary