inscrutableadjective
uk/ɪnˈskruː.tə.bəl/us/ɪnˈskruː.t̬ə.bəl/not showing emotions or thoughts and therefore very difficult to understand or get to know:
an inscrutable face/expression/smile
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- immune
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
- stoicism
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inscrutably
adverb uk/ɪnˈskruː.tə.bli/us/ɪnˈskruː.t̬ə.bli/
She smiled inscrutably.
inscrutability
noun [ U ] uk/ɪnˌskruː.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ɪnˌskruː.t̬əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/