[ adj ] of an obscure nature <adj.all> the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious termsa deep dark secret the inscrutable workings of Providence in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
Inscrutable \In*scru"ta*ble\, a. [L. inscrutabilis : cf. F. inscrutable. See {In-} not, and {Scrutiny}.] Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.
'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. --Beau. & Fl.
Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. --De Quincey.
Airports are clogged, fares are inscrutable, and the commercial fleet is showing its age with frightening regularity.
Nowadays "romantic" means young lovelies spirited away by inscrutable noblemen to cliff-top mansions with names like Mandrake.