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inscrutable

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1. inscrutable - Noun

2. inscrutable - Adjective

3. inscrutable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. Immanuel Kant

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor. Mahmud Tarzi

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. Matthew Arnold

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator. Jerry Coyne

We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless. Cormac McCarthy

I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. Bill Watterson

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