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Definition of Inscrutable
1. Adjective. Of an obscure nature. "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
Similar to: Incomprehensible, Inexplicable
Derivative terms: Inscrutability, Mystery
Definition of Inscrutable
1. a. 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.
Definition of Inscrutable
1. Adjective. Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom(,) or interpret. ¹
2. Noun. One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inscrutable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Inscrutable
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) Origin: L. Inscrutabilis: cf. F. Inscrutable. See In- not, and Scrutiny. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inscrutable
Literary usage of Inscrutable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story (1846)
"If his language was meant to apply to a case of inscrutable fault or blame, then
it would seem to affirm the rule in England to be, not to apportion the ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"And (3) this predestination must be founded, not on foreseen good in man. but on
the inscrutable but necessarily just will of God (De ..."
3. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1886)
"All God's revelations are through the Son or the Spirit, and the latter includes
the former. VL inscrutable, YET NOT SELF-CONTRADICTORY, THIS DOCTRINE ..."
4. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1920)
"INEVITABLE ACCIDENT OR inscrutable FAULT 145. Where neither vessel is in fault,
or where the fault is inscrutable, neither can recover, and the loss rests ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... but neither is there any breath of warm life; the conception of an inscrutable
and inexorable omnipotence approaches the lifelessness of Fate. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... good fortune and British courage would always come successfully out of any
war that the inscrutable mysteries of foreign policy might bring about. ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"С. inscrutable Fault—1. DEFINITION. The case of inscrutable fault is one It was
held that the accident might have been avoided if the brig had slipped and ..."
8. Outlines of Systematic Theology: Designed for the Use of Theological Students by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1908)
"The mode of this triune existence is inscrutable. It is inscrutable because there
are no analogies to it in our ..."
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