- not comprehensible; that cannot be understood; obscure or unintelligible
- Archaic illimitable
Origin of incomprehensible
Middle English from Old French or L: Old French incompréhensible from Classical Latin incomprehensibilis
adjective
- A very complex math problem that only a genius can do is an example of something that is an incomprehensible task to a person in high school who is terrible at math.
- When a child throws a tantrum for absolutely no logical reason, this is an example of incomprehensible behavior.
The definition of incomprehensible is something that cannot be explained or cannot be understood.
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incomprehensible
adjective
- a. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible: incomprehensible jargon.b. Impossible to know or fathom: incomprehensible mysteries.
- Archaic Having no limits; boundless.
Related Forms:
- in′com·pre·hen′si·bil′i·ty in′com·pre·hen′si·ble·ness
noun
- in′com·pre·hen′si·bly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)
- impossible or very difficult to understand
Antonyms
Origin
See also: incompréhensibleFrom Middle French incompréhensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis.
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Sentence Examples
- It's incomprehensible, but the tipster keeps doing it.
- "Now then, go on, go on!" incited the officer, bending forward and trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to him.
- The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.
- Out of this Nothing or incomprehensible essence the world of ideas or primordial causes is eternally created.
- His main result is that God is infinite, and as such, incomprehensible; that his attributes of goodness, knowledge and power are credited to him only by inference from their effects; that this inference is logically valid and sufficient for human thought.
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WORDS NEAR incomprehensible IN THE DICTIONARY
- incomprehensible
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- incompossible
- incomprehense