Usually means: Impossible to understand or interpret.
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  1. inscrutable: Merriam-Webster
  2. inscrutable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inscrutable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inscrutable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inscrutable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inscrutable, inscrutable: Wordnik
  7. inscrutable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inscrutable: Wiktionary
  9. inscrutable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inscrutable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inscrutable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inscrutable, inscrutable: Dictionary.com
  13. inscrutable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inscrutable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inscrutable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inscrutable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inscrutable: Rhymezone
  18. Inscrutable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inscrutable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inscrutable: FreeDictionary.org
  21. inscrutable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Inscrutable: The Word Detective
  23. inscrutable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inscrutable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. inscrutable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
noun:  One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.

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