scrutable

American  

[skroo-tuh-buhl] / ˈskru tə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.

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scrutable British  

/ ˈskruːtəbəl /

adjective

1. rare open to or able to be understood by scrutiny

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Other Word Forms

• scrutability noun
• unscrutable adjective

Etymology

Origin of scrutable

1590–1600; < Latin scrūt ( ārī ) ( scrutiny ) + -able

Example Sentences

“Mitch McConnell is the most scrutable leader; he’s not a bluffer,” said Scott Jennings, a former McConnell aide and political strategist in Kentucky.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

And actually, the visuals of that passage are stunning, giving viewers a direct juxtaposition between the confident, open Obama before that moment and the less scrutable figure afterward.

From Salon • May 6, 2020

Two months out from a World Cup hosted by an aspirant rogue state, what is on the mind of deeply scrutable Fifa president Gianni Infantino?

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2018

As a child, for reasons probably scrutable only to Dr. Freud, I was viscerally repulsed by raw eggs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2017

We turned again toward the Board, and another course altogether of demonstrations passed over the surface of it, and was made scrutable to our perceptions.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord