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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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  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.
  2. adj. of an obscure nature
  3. 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.
  4. Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understoodby inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained oraccounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, aninscrutable design or event.'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which isinscrutable. Beau. & Fl.Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. De Quincey.
  5. j:100 s of an obscure nature