Crossword-Solution: INSCRUTABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inscrutable | a. | 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. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “INSCRUTABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Defying analysis. | 1 answer |
| Unknowable | 2 answers |
| Difficult to fathom | 2 answers |
| numinous | 5 answers |
| insoluble | 10 answers |
| Unfathomable | 20 answers |
| inviolable | 22 answers |
| Deadpan | 27 answers |
| unguessed | 28 answers |
| impassable | 50 answers |
| unaccountable | 51 answers |
| cabalistic | 62 answers |
| Inexplicable | 63 answers |
| Impenetrable | 70 answers |
| Arcane | 77 answers |
| Mystic | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INSCRUTABLE (5)
PEARL We have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion.
The connotation is that the person so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass with time.
And how looks it now? There is no window! There is no face! An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world! Is there no other sound? One other, and a fearful one.
Neither the wealth of her father and mother, or all the powerful resources of the great republic were able to wrest the secret of her whereabouts from the inscrutable desert that had swallowed her and her abductor.
Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.
Quotes with INSCRUTABLE (3)
A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts, and the knowledge of truth is false in its very truth. The leaves' greenness is worth more, for a right understanding, than a great thought, for the leaves, greenness is something you can show others, but you can never show them a great thought. We are born without knowing how to talk and we die without having known how to express ourselves. Our life runs its course b…
Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" and bear the twanglingof your small guitarbecause you are my owland foster me with milk. Why wet my paw? Just keep me in a bagand no one knows the truth. I am familiar with witchesand stand a better chance in hell than youfor I can dance on hot bricks, leap your heightand land on all fours. I am the servant of the Living God. I worship in my way. Look into these sli…
In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The object was to find a verbal formula to define the Brahman, the ultimate and inexpressible reality beyond human understanding. The idea was to push language as far as it would go, until participants became aware of the ineffable. The challenger, drawing on his immense erudition, began the process by asking an enigmatic question and…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).