INSCRUTABLE Synonyms

• of an obscure nature

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• not clear to the understanding

• resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought

• not clear to the understanding

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• of depth; not capable of being sounded or measured

• resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable

• incapable of being fully understood

• defying expression or description

• too sacred to be uttered

• of an obscure nature

• having a secret or hidden meaning

• relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

• having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination

• the central and most intense or profound part

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• literary term for an ocean

• to a great depth; far down or in

• to an advanced time

• to a great distance

• marked by depth of thinking

• very distant in time or space

• intense or extreme

• having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range

• strong; intense

• relatively thick from top to bottom

• extending relatively far inward

• (of darkness) densely dark

• large in quantity or size

• with head or back bent low

• of an obscure nature

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy

• of an obscure nature