inscrutable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite of an obscure nature
    cryptical; cryptic; deep; mystifying; mysterious.
    • 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

WordNet

In*scru"ta*ble adjective
Etymology
L. inscrutabilis : cf. F. inscrutable. See In- not, and Scrutiny.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913