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Inscrutable vs Unreadable - What's the difference?

inscrutable | unreadable |

As adjectives the difference between inscrutable and unreadable

is that inscrutable is difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret while unreadable is that cannot be read or is not easy to read.

As a noun inscrutable

is one who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.

inscrutable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.
    • His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
  • * 2007 , Tracy Jordan'' (Tracy Morgan), ''30 Rock :
    • She called my vanity license plate inscrutable ! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!

    Synonyms

    * (difficult to comprehend) ineffable

    Derived terms

    * inscrutability * inscrutableness * inscrutably

    See also

    * inexplorable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.

    • unreadable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That cannot be read or is not easy to read.
    • unreadable handwriting
    a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments
    unreadable charts
  • Not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading.
    • unreadable book

    Synonyms

    * (that cannot be read or is not easy to read ): illegible, indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable * (not sufficiently interesting to be worth reading ): boring, dull, tedious

    Antonyms

    * readable

    Derived terms

    * unreadability