inapprehensible
- adjective
- /ˌɪnæprɪˈhɛnsəbl/
:
incomprensible
- His explanation was filled with jargon, making it inapprehensible to anyone not in the field.
Examples
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Between the two, he exists in an inexorably inapprehensible present, "Hoy," which, because of its velocity, can only be perceived as "lo vivido."
Academic text (1995) -
The answer is so familiar as to be almost inapprehensible.
Academic text (1992) -
The concept was so complex that it seemed completely inapprehensible to the students.
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Many of the legal terms in the contract were inapprehensible to her.
Synonyms
∞
8.6
Not clear enough to understand
47
7.8
Hard to explain or understand
46
8.8
Difficult or impossible to understand
27
6.4
Hard to understand and causing confusion
23
8.6
Very hard to understand or measure how deep something is
19
7.0
Something people cannot understand or find a clear reason for
14
8.3
Very hard to understand
13
5.2
Causing a lot of confusion and making things hard to understand
12
8.9
Hard to understand because it shows no clear meaning or feeling
8
8.8
Too hard to read or understand
1
9.1
Very hard to read or understand
1
8.2
Not possible to understand or explain
1
7.6
Hard to know what someone thinks or feels
1
9.6
Hard or impossible to understand
Very hard to understand
Not possible for people to know or understand
Not possible for people to know or understand
Difficult to read from a person's face or behavior
Antonyms
How Understandable
171
1.6
207
3.9
276
3.2
27
6.4
46
8.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
inapprehensible = apprehensible (semi-transparent) = in + apprehens + ible
This sense is a straightforward negation of 'apprehensible' meaning 'able to be understood or grasped'.
Etymology
The word inapprehensible comes from the parts in- 'not' and apprehend 'to grasp' or 'take hold'. So something inapprehensible cannot be 'grasped' in the mind, which is why it means impossible to understand.