English
Etymology
From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inscrutabilis, from in- (“not”) + scrutare (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable
Pronunciation
Adjective
inscrutable (comparative more inscrutable, superlative most inscrutable)
- Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
- His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
- 2007, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), 30 Rock:
- She called my vanity license plate inscrutable! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret
- Arabic: غامِض (ḡāmiḍ), غَلِق (ḡaliq), مُبْهَم (mubham), مُسْتَغْلِق (mustaḡliq)
- Bulgarian: неразгадаем (bg) (nerazgadaem)
- Catalan: inescrutable, insondable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不可理解的 (bùkě lǐjiě de)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: ondoorgrondelijk (nl)
- Finnish: käsittämätön (fi)
- French: impénétrable (fr), incompréhensible (fr), insondable (fr)
- German: undurchschaubar (de)
- Greek: ακατανόητος (el) (akatanóitos)
- Italian: impenetrabile (it), incomprensibile (it), insondabile
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Latin: perplexus
- Manx: neuronsoilagh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uutgrunnelig
- Portuguese: inescrutável (pt)
- Romanian: inscrutabil, neexaminabil, necercetabil, neanchetabil, de necercetat
- Russian: зага́дочный (ru) (zagádočnyj), непостижимый (ru) (nepostižimyj), необъяснимый (ru) (neobʺjasnimyj), непоня́тный (ru) (neponjátnyj), неисповеди́мый (ru) (neispovedímyj)
- Spanish: inescrutable (es), impenetrable, incomprensible (es), insondable
- Swedish: outgrundlig (sv)
- Turkish: anlaşılmaz (tr), esrarlı (tr), gizemli (tr), esrârengiz
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See also
Noun
inscrutable (plural inscrutables)
- One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.
