in|scru´ta|bly

in|scru´ta|bly
in|scru|ta|ble «ihn SKROO tuh buhl», adjective.
that cannot be understood; so mysterious or obscure that one cannot make out its meaning; incomprehensible: »

... he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful…inscrutable to the last (James Thurber). The historian undertook to make us intimately acquainted with a man singularly dark and inscrutable (Macaulay). A locust sang once or twice in some inscrutable seclusion of the tree (Hawthorne).

 SYNONYM(S): unfathomable, impenetrable, unintelligible. See syn. under mysterious. (Cf. ↑mysterious)
╂[< Late Latin īnscrūtābilis < Latin in- not + scrūtārī examine, search thoroughly < scrūtā, plural, trash < Greek grútē frippery, small wares]
–in|scru´ta|ble|ness, noun.
–in|scru´ta|bly, adverb.

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  • ta — ab·lac·ta·tion; ab·sen·ta·tion; abu·ta; ac·cep·ta·tion; ac·cli·ma·ta·tion; ac·cred·i·ta·tion; ac·er·a·ta; ac·e·ta·tion; ac·e·ta·to ; ach·e·ta; achor·da·ta; acoe·lo·ma·ta; acra·ni·a·ta; ac·ro·tre·ta; ac·ta; ac·ti·no·my·ce·ta·ce·ae;… …   English syllables

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