Inscrutability
81uncertainty — n 1. doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, dubiety, skepticism; unsureness, hesitancy, hesitation; caution, wariness, tentativeness; suspicion, suspiciousness, diffidence, misgiving, distrust, mistrust. 2. guess, piece of guesswork; borderline case,… …
82inscrutable — UK [ɪnˈskruːtəb(ə)l] / US [ɪnˈskrutəb(ə)l] adjective if someone is inscrutable, it is impossible to understand what they are thinking or feeling from their expression or from what they say His face remained inscrutable and unsmiling. Derived… …
83inscrutable — /ɪnˈskrutəbəl / (say in skroohtuhbuhl) adjective 1. incapable of being searched into or scrutinised; impenetrable to investigation. 2. not easily understood; mysterious; enigmatic. 3. impenetrable or unfathomable physically. {late Middle English …
84dark — [adj1] lack of light aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, Cimmerian, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid,… …
85darkness — [n1] place, time that is unlit black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, Cimmerian shade, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade …
86mystery — [n] puzzle, secret abstruseness, brainteaser*, braintwister*, charade, chiller, cliffhanger*, closed book*, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler*, mystification, occult, oracle,… …
87inscrutable — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ impossible to understand or interpret. DERIVATIVES inscrutability noun inscrutably adverb. ORIGIN Latin inscrutabilis, from in not + scrutari to search …
88inscrutably — inscrutable ► ADJECTIVE ▪ impossible to understand or interpret. DERIVATIVES inscrutability noun inscrutably adverb. ORIGIN Latin inscrutabilis, from in not + scrutari to search …
89inscrutable — [in skro͞ot′ə bəl] adj. [ME < LL(Ec) inscrutabilis < L in , not + scrutari, to search carefully, examine: see SCRUTINY] that cannot be easily understood; completely obscure or mysterious; unfathomable; enigmatic SYN. MYSTERIOUS… …
90cryptical — adjective 1. 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… …
