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Today's Word "Inscrutable"

Unfathomable, incomprehensible on

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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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