Today's Word "Inscrutable"
Published in Vocabulary
inscrutable \in-SKRUT-eh-behl\ (adjective) - Unfathomable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, mysterious.
"Unscrewing the inscrutable motivations of management at this place is not worth the effort."
Via Old French from Late Latin inscrutabilis based on in- "not" + scrutari "to scrutinize," a verb derived from the noun scruta "trash." The Latin verb originally meaning "to trash" has connotations significantly different from those of the current English correlate: it originally implied searching thoroughly, even in the trash.
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