Inscrutable : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Inscrutable	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Inscrutable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inscrutable adj of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable 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" Synonym(s): cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inscrutable \Inscru"table\, 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.