🤔 Hard to understand 🚫 Impossible to get

ungettable

1 9.6

Hard or impossible to understand

adjective
/ʌnˈɡɛtəbl/

: incomprensible

This concept is completely ungettable for many students.

Examples

Some rare collectibles are simply ungettable no matter how hard you search.
The meaning of the poem remained ungettable to most of the audience.
The professor's explanation was almost ungettable, leaving several students visibly confused.
Why is this topic so ungettable?
The concept he was trying to explain was so complex that it felt almost ungettable.
After hours of research, I found the details of that project to be ungettable.
The instructions for the new software were written in such technical jargon that they seemed ungettable.

Synonyms

unintelligible

vsungettable

∞ 8.6

Not clear enough to understand

also includes things that cannot be acquired or reached

elusive

vsungettable

52 7.0

Hard to understand or describe, like the meaning of a symbol

can also mean completely impossible to get or fully understand

incomprehensible

vsungettable

46 8.8

Difficult or impossible to understand

also applies to things that cannot be obtained or reached

unexplainable

vsungettable

19 7.0

Something people cannot understand or find a clear reason for

also applies to things that cannot be obtained or understood

unattainable

vsungettable

18 6.3

Not possible to get or reach

can also mean impossible to understand rather than only unreachable

impenetrable

vsungettable

14 8.3

Very hard to understand

also covers items that cannot be obtained or accessed

inscrutable

vsungettable

12 8.9

Hard to understand because it shows no clear meaning or feeling

also applies to things that cannot be reached or acquired

unobtainable

vsungettable

7 6.1

Impossible to get

also describes things that cannot be understood or made sense of

indefinable

vsungettable

4 6.9

Hard to describe or explain in words

also applies to things that cannot be obtained or grasped

undefinable

vsungettable

3 6.8

Hard to describe exactly in words

also covers inability to get or reach something as well

unfindable

vsungettable

1 7.1

Very hard to find

also covers ideas that are hard to understand rather than just locate

uninterpretable

vsungettable

1 8.2

Not possible to understand or explain

also refers to items that cannot be obtained or reached

ungraspable

vsungettable

1 8.6

Difficult to understand even after thinking about it

also applies to things that cannot be physically obtained

unsearchable

vsungettable

1 7.6

Hard to know what someone thinks or feels

is used for objects or facts as well, not only inner states

uncomprehensible

vsungettable

Informal

9.9

Very hard to understand

is the standard form used for the same meaning

inapprehensible

vsungettable

9.9

Hard to understand or explain

also applies to things that cannot be obtained or reached

unperceivable

vsungettable

9.1

Too small, slow, or quiet for people to notice

also covers things that cannot be found or acquired

incognoscible

vsungettable

Archaic

9.9

Not possible for people to know or understand

also applies to items that cannot be obtained or reached

incognizable

vsungettable

Formal

9.9

Not possible for people to know or understand

also includes things that cannot be acquired or reached

unscannable

vsungettable

8.4

Difficult to read from a person's face or behavior

applies more broadly to ideas or things beyond expressions

introuvable

vsungettable

9.9

Very hard to find or get

also applies to concepts that are hard to understand or obtain

unprocurable

vsungettable

9.9

Not possible to find or buy

also applies to ideas or meanings that cannot be grasped mentally

undiscoverable

vsungettable

8.9

Not possible to find or learn where something is

also refers to things that cannot be understood or made clear

uncomeatable

vsungettable

Archaic

9.9

Hard to reach or get

also applies to ideas that cannot be mentally grasped or obtained

un-get-at-able

vsungettable

Informal

9.9

Hard to reach or achieve

also covers things that cannot be understood as well as reached

Antonyms

accessible

45 3.4

A text or idea easy to understand

gettable

2 2.7

Something you can buy or find

How Understandable

understandable

171 1.6

unclear

207 3.9

confusing

276 3.2

ungettable

1 9.6

Surface Forms

ungettable positive

Morphology

ungettable = gettable (transparent) = un + get + able

Formed by negating 'gettable' (get + -able); the meaning 'not obtainable/understandable' follows standard negation rules and is predictable.

Etymology

Ungettable is made from un- ('not'), get ('to understand' or 'to obtain'), and the ending -able ('able to be'). A helpful way to remember is that something ungettable cannot be 'got', so it is hard or impossible to understand or to obtain.