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inscrutable (adjective), more inscrutable, most inscrutable
1. A reference to being impossible or too difficult to be explained or perceived: The inscrutable financial report by the company was too obscure and too vague for the tax accountants to figure out.

The police psychiatrist could not understand the killer's inscrutable motives.

2. Mysterious, unfathomable, or physically impenetrable: The teacher spoke so softly that sometimes his lectures were inscrutable by most of the students.
Incapable of being understood.
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Completely obscure or mysterious.
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Incomprehensible or unpredictable.
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inscrutable, more inscrutable, most inscrutable
Pertaining to or characteristic of not being able to be understood. (3)
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