Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Inscrutable   /ɪnskrˈutəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Inscrutable  adj.  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." "Waiving a question so inscrutable as this."





Click any word on the page to get its definition
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
Text size:  A A


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Inscrutable" Quotes from Famous Books



... phrase—his one phrase—how descriptive it is of the form and whiteness of a shoulder, the supple fulness of the arm's muscle, the brightness of eyes increased by kohl! Scent is burning on silver dishes, and through the fumes appear the subdued colours of embroidered stuffs and the inscrutable traceries of bronze lamps. Or, maybe, the scene passes on a terrace overlooking a dark river. Behind the domes and minarets a yellow moon dreams like an odalisque, her hand on the circle of her breast; and through the torrid ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
 Read full book for free!
... some Oxford friends, among whom was a tall Scotch professor who was a brilliant and quick talker. Tamaitai took no part in the rapid thrust and parry of the talk, but sat silently looking from one to another with her great dark eyes. Their comment on her long afterwards was that she was the most inscrutable person they had ever met. As we drove home after the party I asked Tamaitai: 'What did you think of the talk?' There was a brief silence—then: 'I didn't understand a single word of it, they talked so fast,' said ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
 Read full book for free!
... laughed down from lazy eyelids and flicked a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at his wrists. This was practically what I did now. At least, I straightened my tie and smiled one of those inscrutable smiles of mine. I then withdrew and went out for a saunter in ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
 Read full book for free!
... know him well, Watson. He is such an inscrutable fellow that I never quite know what to make of him. Do you think he is hopeful? Do you think he expects to make a success ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 Read full book for free!
... sidewise in his chair, with his elbow on the back and his head leaning on his hand. Without moving he looked a while at his companion with his dry, guarded, half-inscrutable, and yet altogether good-natured smile. "Introduce me to your wife!" ...
— The American • Henry James
 Read full book for free!


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com