incomprehensible
46
8.8
- adjective
- /ˌɪnkəmˈprɛhənsəbl/
:
incomprensible
- The complex instructions were so incomprehensible that many students gave up trying to follow them.
- seem incomprehensible
- utterly incomprehensible
- remain incomprehensible
And it's completely incomprehensible to the people back then.
- And it's completely incomprehensible to the people back then.
- That's a property which is incomprehensible in classical physics.
- And the hatred he got from colleagues, just incomprehensible hatred.
- I told the truth, although I feared the truth was incomprehensible.
- Now XQC reacted to neos response with this incomprehensible video.
- So whatever this is, this observer which is almost incomprehensible because it has no location in space-time.
- And Anselm says, look, that knowledge is actually strictly speaking, incomprehensible.
- And then five years later, the team folded, which seemed incomprehensible.
- And then there are moments where I can go like this is just all incomprehensible.
- Does Toft's idea make more sense than quantum physics, or are they both equally incomprehensible?
- Other reason so many people either think physics is incomprehensible or physicists have totally lost it, or maybe both.
Examples
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Normally, discussion of this subject is incomprehensible to people who are not involved in international taxation.
Academic text (1999) -
The idea of exclusive loyalty to one religion is rather foreign and incomprehensible to most people.
Academic text (1999) -
I think we live in an incomprehensible present.
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But now it seemed that even my flight from her fit into some incomprehensible design.
Fiction book (1993) -
When it comes to love, Jacks is completely incomprehensible.
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To a distant public, such conflicts may seem inevitable, incomprehensible, and impossible to resolve.
Academic text (1996) -
The recent history of Indonesia is incomprehensible without reference to the country's geography of religion.
Academic text (2000) -
There is real otherness in the Trinity, and incomprehensible communion too.
Academic text (2008) -
Albert Einstein also once said the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
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Hector sits quietly with a smile on his face, their chatter incomprehensible to him.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
∞
8.6
Not clear enough to understand
276
3.2
Hard to understand and makes people feel unsure
47
7.8
Hard to explain or 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
16
6.7
Making people feel confused because it is hard to understand
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
9
6.4
Difficult to understand
8
8.8
Too hard to read or understand
1
9.1
Very hard to read or understand
1
8.6
Difficult to understand even after thinking about it
1
8.2
Not possible to understand or explain
1
7.6
Hard to know what someone thinks or feels
Hard to understand or explain
Very hard to understand
Not possible for people to know or understand
Difficult to read from a person's face or behavior
Antonyms
How Understandable
∞
1.0
171
1.6
276
3.2
207
3.9
46
8.8
12
8.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
incomprehensible = comprehensible (semi-transparent) = in + comprehend + ible
The negative prefix 'in-' combines straightforwardly with 'comprehensible' to mean 'not comprehensible'.
Etymology
The word incomprehensible begins with in- meaning 'not' and the part comprehend means 'to understand' and comes from a word that meant 'to grasp'. So incomprehensible is something you cannot 'grasp' with your mind, which is why it means impossible or very hard to understand.