inscrutable

Modifying Another Word

• quite: Difficult to know, quite inscrutable people, according to Nick from the embassy.
• rather: The choreography seemed rather inscrutable to me, and devoid of dance interest.
• often: A well-intentioned but often inscrutable treatise Schaeffer was a sincere, devout, extremely intelligent, and supremely compassionate man.
• not: Their best songs are specific, not inscrutable; impassioned despite themselves.

Modifies a noun

• mystery: The killer left no clues, and the murder remains an inscrutable mystery.
• smile: The next day, Hamed turned up with a young man a relative from his village, who gave me an inscrutable smile.
• reason: Sometimes God for his own inscrutable reasons witholds his face from us.
• face: He was a native of Spain, with a smooth inscrutable face, and an extraordinary capacity for scenting hidden perils.
• sphinx: Play as the inscrutable Sphinx - who must find jars containing the Mommy's organs ( ugh!
• way: Like dreams they can be ignored or shape our lives in inscrutable ways.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: The duke's room remained inscrutable behind its shutters.
• seem: The choreography seemed rather inscrutable to me, and devoid of dance interest.
• appear: Saturday 25th February 2006 You might appear less inscrutable as the day wears on - and more preoccupied.
• look: The suave Carnarvon, and English gent with money to burn, backs Carter's quest while looking inscrutable in a hat.