incomprehensive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- incomprehensively adverb
- incomprehensiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of incomprehensive
First recorded in 1645–55; in- 3 + comprehensive
Example Sentences
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The space embraces all kinds of contradictions — cold but intimate, remote yet accessible, incomprehensive yet inclusive.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2017
As a retrospective survey it was slanted and incomprehensive; as a concert it was clear-headed, sturdy and engaging, with Mr. Marsalis himself in superlative form.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2011
I cannot paint the amazement with which, completely unprepared for and incomprehensive of this transition from crying to kissing, she shoved him away.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
His team-mates stared at him in incomprehensive amazement.
From Over the Line by Sherman, Harold Morrow
Do what he would, this atrocious, incomprehensive calumny would crush him.
From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile
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