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INSCRUTABLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of an obscure nature

Example:

rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands

Synonyms:

cryptic; cryptical; deep; inscrutable; mysterious; mystifying

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)

Derivation:

inscrutability (the quality of being impossible to investigate)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I am too well aware that when, in the inscrutable decrees of Fate, you were reserved for me, it is possible you may have been reserved for one, destined, after a protracted struggle, at length to fall a victim to pecuniary involvements of a complicated nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)