incomprehensible
Americanadjective
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impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- Synonyms:
- obscure, bewildering, baffling
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Archaic. limitless; not limited or capable of being limited.
adjective
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incapable of being understood; unintelligible
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archaic limitless; boundless
Other Word Forms
- incomprehensibility noun
- incomprehensibleness noun
- incomprehensibly adverb
- superincomprehensible adjective
- superincomprehensibleness noun
- superincomprehensibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of incomprehensible
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Latin word incomprehēnsibilis. See in- 3, comprehensible
Example Sentences
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Berkshire employs no complex and incomprehensible compensation formulas for executives.
From Barron's
Lufthansa human resources chief Michale Niggemann earlier criticised the walkout as "completely incomprehensible," particularly at a time of "geopolitical uncertainty with the war in Iran" that had thrown global air traffic into chaos.
From Barron's
Art—crude or cruel, adolescent or arch—is supposed to make comprehensible the incomprehensible.
He called the loss of Catherine O’Hara “incomprehensible.”
From Salon
Appalled by the incomprehensible waste—Hiroshima was still weeks away—he searched for precedent in myth and antiquity, alighting at once on the North African city of Carthage.
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