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INSCRUTABLE
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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:
Similar:
incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)
Derivation:
inscrutability (the quality of being impossible to investigate)
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)
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