inscrutable (adj.)

  1. of an obscure nature; the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms; a deep dark secret; the inscrutable workings of Providence; in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life- Rachel Carson; rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands

    [ Syn: cryptic , cryptical , deep , mysterious , mystifying ]

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