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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. --Beau. & Fl Waiving a question so inscrutable as this --De Quincey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inscrutable adj : of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible 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}, {mysterious}, {mystifying}]
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