She looked at him with an inscrutable expression.
Source: tatoeba (2757685)
Inscrutable
//ˌɪnˈskɹuːtəbl̩//
Synonyms for "inscrutable" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Adjective(5 words)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (32)
Adjective(15 words)
Adjective(2 words)
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2 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- غامِض adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- غَلِق adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- مُبْهَم adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- مُسْتَغْلِق adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Bulgarian
1 entries- неразгадаем adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Catalan
2 entries- inescrutable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- insondable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不可理解的 adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Danish
4 entries- gådefuld adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- ubegribelig adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- ufattelig adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- uforståelig adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Dutch
1 entries- ondoorgrondelijk adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Finnish
1 entries- käsittämätön adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
French
3 entries- impénétrable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- incompréhensible adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- insondable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Galician
1 entries- inescrutábel adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
German
1 entries- undurchschaubar adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Greek
1 entries- ακατανόητος adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Hindi
4 entries- गूढ़ adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- दुरत्यय adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- दुरधिगम adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- दुर्ज्ञेय adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Hungarian
1 entries- kifürkészhetetlen adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Italian
3 entries- impenetrabile adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- incomprensibile adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- insondabile adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Latin
1 entries- perplexus adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Manx
1 entries- neuronsoilagh adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- uutgrunnelig adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Portuguese
1 entries- inescrutável adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Romanian
4 entries- de necercetat adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- inscrutabil adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- neanchetabil adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- necercetabil adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Russian
4 entries- зага́дочный adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- неисповеди́мый adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- необъясни́мый adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- непоня́тный adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Spanish
4 entries- impenetrable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- incomprensible adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- inescrutable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- inscrutable adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Swedish
1 entries- outgrundlig adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Turkish
4 entries- anlaşılmaz adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- esrarlı adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- esrârengiz adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
- gizemli adj (difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Chinese people are so inscrutable.
Source: tatoeba (5036283)
Corals are animals because they do not make their own food, as plants do. Corals have tiny, tentacle-like arms that they use to capture their food from the water and sweep into their inscrutable mouths.
Source: tatoeba (6684489)
The symbols on the clay tablets that we found more than a month ago continue to be as inscrutable and mysterious as when we uncovered them.
Source: tatoeba (10611900)
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