Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inscrutable"
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) 1.7 (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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