| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| inscrutable |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·scru·ta·ble |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-skr  t -bl |
| ADJECTIVE: | Difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable. See synonyms at mysterious. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin  nscr t bilis : in-, not; see in–1 + scrtr, to scrutinize; see scrutiny. | | OTHER FORMS: | in·scru ta·bili·ty, in·scruta·ble·ness —NOUN
in·scruta·bly —ADVERB
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