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incomprehensible
Impossible to know or fathom:
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  1. Impossible to know or fathom:
  2. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible:
  3. Not comprehensible; that cannot be understood; obscure or unintelligible
mysterious
Having unknown qualities
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  1. Having unknown qualities
  2. Of, relating to, or being a religious mystery:
  3. Arousing wonder or curiosity, especially by being difficult to explain or understand:
impenetrable
That cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
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  1. That cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
  2. Impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
  3. Impossible to penetrate or enter:
impenetrable
That cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
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  1. That cannot be solved or understood; unfathomable; inscrutable
  2. Impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
  3. Impossible to penetrate or enter:
incomprehensible
Impossible to know or fathom:
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  1. Impossible to know or fathom:
  2. Not comprehensible; that cannot be understood; obscure or unintelligible
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible:
unfathomable
Incapable of being measured
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  1. Incapable of being measured
  2. That cannot be understood; incomprehensible
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
unintelligible
Not intelligible; unable to be understood
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  1. Not intelligible; unable to be understood
  2. Not intelligible; that cannot be understood; incomprehensible
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; incomprehensible:
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Sentence Examples

  • It is of the essence of a sacrament to be an inscrutable process.

  • Notwithstanding the allurements of the subject, such conservative historians as Grote were disposed to regard the problems of early Grecian history as inscrutable, and to content themselves with the recital of traditions without attempting to establish their relationship with actual facts.

  • This work is divided into two parts; the first intended to show that while ultimate metaphysical questions are insoluble they compel to a recognition of an inscrutable Power behind phenomena which is called the Unknowable; the second devoted to the formulation and illustration of the Law of Evolution.

  • Out of this contrast there ultimately grew an essentially different opposition between faith and knowledge or reason, according to which the theological basis of ethics was contrasted with the philosophical; the theologians maintaining sometimes that the divine law is essentially arbitrary, the expression of will, not reason; more frequently that its reasonableness is inscrutable, and that actual human reason should confine itself to examining the credentials of God's messengers, and not the message itself.

  • It is one of the inscrutable perplexities of human affairs, that in the logic of practical life, in order to reach conclusions that cover enough for truth, we are constantly driven to premises that cover too much, and that in order to secure their right weight to justice and reason good men are forced to fling the two-edged sword of passion into the same scale.

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