Sunday, June 16, 2019

Word of the Week 06/16/19: Inscrutable

From Dictionary.com:
1. incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
2. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable:
3. incapable of being seen through physically; physically impenetrable:

From Cambridge Dictionary:
1. very difficult to understand or get to know
2. not showing emotions or thoughts and therefore very difficult to understand or get to know

From Vocabulary.com:
of an obscure nature

From Merriam-Webster:
You may have to scrutinize this word closely in order to speculate as to its origins, but there is at least one clue in this sentence. Inscrutable derives from the Late Latin adjective inscrutabilis, which can be traced back to the verb scrutari, meaning "to search or to examine." "Scrutari" is also the source of the English words "scrutinize" and "scrutiny."

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