INSCRUTABLENESS Synonyms

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• of an obscure nature

• having a secret or hidden meaning

• having a puzzling terseness

• not clear to the understanding

• resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought

• not admitting of penetration or passage into or through

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• impossible to understand

• not easily deciphered

• impossible to determine the meaning of

• incapable of being explained or accounted for

• of an obscure nature

• of an obscure nature

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

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• 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