incomprehensible

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: From the opening there were two major problems with The Third Policeman primarily the voice over was utterly incomprehensible.
• mutually: In the radical interpreter Davidson is looking for the means of translation between mutually incomprehensible languages.
• almost: Someone from the North, for example, might find a Londoner almost incomprehensible.
• totally: I find this totally incomprehensible coming from a Christian.
• seemingly: Date: 16/08/2004 LIZ JACKSON, REPORTER: It was a shocking and seemingly incomprehensible act, but one that is far from unique.
• completely: The remarks... are completely incomprehensible for us " .

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: The natives are those under the age of 30 who find the Old Country simply incomprehensible!
• make: Nor should they obscure the costs of borrowing by making charges incomprehensible.
• render: A complex narrative style renders the plot largely incomprehensible for the first 45 minutes.

Modifies a noun

• jargon: First spend 20 minutes talking loudly to him in incomprehensible jargon.
• language: If incomprehensible, language is reduced to visual pattern.
• word: Listen, this morning, for the incomprehensible word the Child speaks to you.
• reason: Or how about the now incomprehensible reasons you married your spouse in the first place?
• thing: The really incomprehensible thing was how unnecessary it was.
• way: In some incomprehensible way that back view made her feel sorry for Alice.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Such a notion seems incomprehensible to most of us nowadays.
• remain: The more he knows, the more remains incomprehensible.
• become: At its worse, the sufferer's speech will become completely incomprehensible.
• find: Also, what I find incomprehensible is the failure to comment on the fates of the ships.
• prove: The Critical Review and the Quarterly feared that the extensive use of Scots would prove incomprehensible to an English audience.