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Inscrutable

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.

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Incomprehensible 84% connected

Not capable of being contained within limits.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Incomprehensible 84% connected

Not capable of being contained within limits.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Inexplicable 84% connected

Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inexplicable 84% connected

Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inscrutability 74% connected

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Inscrutability 74% connected

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

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Cryptic 92% connected

Alt. of Cryptical

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cryptical 92% connected

Hidden; secret; occult.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Deep 92% connected

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mysterious 92% connected

Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehen…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mystifying 92% connected

of Mystify

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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