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impossible to understand — often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious- The computer gave some inscrutable error message I can't remember.
inscrutable = impossible to understand
- She was inscrutable.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- The black man's face was empty, inscrutable.Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels
- Whenever the TV screen flickers, the light striking her profile wavers, and shadows dance like inscrutable signals.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- The Buddha's eyes quietly looked to the ground; quietly, in perfect equanimity his inscrutable face was smiling.Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
- "Ready," Archie said, keeping his face expressionless, inscrutable as usual, even though he felt a bead of perspiration trace a cold path from his armpit to his rib.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- At first he considered saving money by sleeping outside on a bench but he was without guides and the inscrutability of the nearby signs unnerved him.Junot Diaz -- Drown
- Newman felt that taking her measure was not easy; she was a formidable, inscrutable little woman.James, Henry -- The American
- Milvain supplied with facts about the private history of Ralph Denham since, for some inscrutable reason, the subject took her fancy.Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
- God alone knows whether I shall be happy, but my fate is in His holy, His inscrutable hand, and I have so decided.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Poor Folk
- O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.Shakespeare, William -- Two Gentlemen of Verona - Inscrutable Nature had demanded of the accomplice a greater penalty than his principal had paid.Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Son Of Tarzan
- He seemed to be pondering over his words, his expression was inscrutable.Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Kingdom of the Blind
- I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!Louise Bogan
- He used to keep the ship loafing at sea for inscrutable reasons.Conrad, Joseph -- The Shadow Line
- But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.E. M. Forster
- O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.William Shakespeare - This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs.Barrie, James Matthew -- The Adventures of Peter Pan
- Dark and, so to speak, inscrutable spaces being met with in life there must be such places in any statement dealing with life.Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
inscrutability = obscureness (the quality of being hard to find or understand)
inscrutable = impossible to read or understand
inscrutable = impossible to understand
inscrutable = impossible to understand
inscrutable = impossible to read or understand
inscrutability = state of not being understandable