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adjective 
  1. difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret
His theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
    • Robert Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
    • : The inscrutability of all this was the kind of inscrutability you have when you suddenly enter a room where a furious argument has just ended. Everyone is quiet. No one is talking.
    • 2007, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), 30 Rock:
    • : She called my license plate ! 'ICU81MI?'? Hilarious!
Etymology: From the (term, inscrutabilis) from (term, in-, , not) + (term, scrutare, , to examine)

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