— inscrutability, inscrutableness , n. — inscrutably , adv.
/in skrooh"teuh beuhl/ , adj.
1. incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
2. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable: an inscrutable smile.
3. incapable of being seen through physically; physically impenetrable: the inscrutable depths of the ocean.
[ 1400-50; late ME inscrutabilis. See IN- 3 , SCRUTABLE ]
Syn. 1. hidden, incomprehensible, undiscoverable, inexplicable. See mysterious .
Ant. 1. comprehensible.