incomprehensible
impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
Archaic. limitless; not limited or capable of being limited.
Origin of incomprehensible
1Other words for incomprehensible
Other words from incomprehensible
- in·com·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, in·com·pre·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- in·com·pre·hen·si·bly, adverb
- su·per·in·com·pre·hen·si·ble, adjective
- su·per·in·com·pre·hen·si·ble·ness, noun
- su·per·in·com·pre·hen·si·bly, adverb
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How to use incomprehensible in a sentence
Supposedly the Principia was such an incomprehensible monster of that few could make much sense of it.
One night Dwyer-Jones responded with a string of “incomprehensible” text messages to Carrolyn’s mother, Anna Bean, claiming she was in the hospital.
Maine Hires Lawyers With Criminal Records to Defend Its Poorest Residents | by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor, with data analysis by Agnel Philip | October 6, 2020 | ProPublicaSuch a deceptively simple question – and yet one that has been made nearly incomprehensible by the government officials trying to answer it.
The County Is Rethinking a Major Coronavirus Trigger | Will Huntsberry | September 9, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIn the very unlucky few, these same bacteria incomprehensibly invade and cause disease rather than simply go along for the ride.
Princeton Considers Vaccinations for Slow-Moving Meningitis Outbreak | Kent Sepkowitz | November 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSome disenchanted Americans gave vent to a racial displeasure over this incomprehensibly exotic Miss America.
Incomprehensibly, many women in the U.S. lack access to health care.
Why the U.S. Should Expand Family-Planning Programs | Cecile Richards | March 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring the first months, he found himself incomprehensibly, riotously happy.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonAs long as a person thinks he is right he is going to be incomprehensibly proud and presumptuous.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians | Martin LutherAnd nearly everybody had, in the kind, done work curiously and almost incomprehensibly faulty.
The English Novel | George Saintsbury"The jingling of the guinea heals," said the stranger, incomprehensibly.
The Incredible Honeymoon | E. NesbitOnce they left the road and strayed off into the lava, incomprehensibly to me; but Maverick understood, and pressed forward.
The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories | Mary Hallock Foote
British Dictionary definitions for incomprehensible
/ (ˌɪnkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbəl, ɪnˌkɒm-) /
incapable of being understood; unintelligible
archaic limitless; boundless
Derived forms of incomprehensible
- incomprehensibility or incomprehensibleness, noun
- incomprehensibly, adverb
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