Inscrutable

Adjective

 * 1) Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
 * His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
 * 1) * 2007, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), 30 Rock:
 * She called my vanity license plate inscrutable! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!

Synonyms

 * ineffable

Adverbs for Inscrutable
mysteriously; oddly; hopelessly; curiously; impenetrably; altogether; strangely; utterly; unaccountably; wholly.

Thesaurus
Greek to one, ambiguous, arcane, beyond understanding, cabalistic, impenetrable, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, mystic, numinous, past comprehension, rambling, unaccountable, unconnected, unfathomable, unguessed, unintelligible, unknowable, unsearchable

Etymology
From the inscrutabilis: from in-: + scrutare:, corresponding to

Translations

 * Arabic: غامض, غلق, مبهم, مستغلق
 * Catalan: inescrutable, insondable
 * Finnish:
 * French: impénétrable, incompréhensible, insondable
 * German: undurchschaubar
 * Greek:


 * Italian: impenetrabile, incomprensibile, insondabile
 * Romanian: inscrutabil, neexaminabil, necercetabil, neanchetabil, de necercetat
 * Russian:, , необъяснимый, непонятный
 * Spanish: inescrutable, impenetrable, incomprensible, insondable
 * Turkish: anlaşılmaz, esrarlı, gizemli, esrarengiz

Derived terms

 * inscrutability
 * inscrutableness
 * inscrutably