Inscrutable vs Covert - What's the difference?
inscrutable | covert | Related terms |
Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.
* 2007 , Tracy Jordan'' (Tracy Morgan), ''30 Rock :
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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As adjectives the difference between inscrutable and covert
is that inscrutable is difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret while covert is hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.As nouns the difference between inscrutable and covert
is that inscrutable is one who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.inscrutable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
- She called my vanity license plate inscrutable ! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!
Synonyms
* (difficult to comprehend) ineffableDerived terms
* inscrutability * inscrutableness * inscrutablySee also
* inexplorablecovert
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
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