incomprehensible

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[ UK /ɪnkˌɒmpɹɪhˈɛnsəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪŋˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. difficult to understand
    the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible
  2. incapable of being explained or accounted for
    left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons
    inexplicable errors
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How To Use incomprehensible In A Sentence

  • Through her suit, Suzie Nova felt the diamantine exterior of the alien contraption throb faintly below her feet, alive with incomprehensible energies that course through it like blood through arteries.
  • He is as incomprehensible as he is inaccessible.
  • Remorse and guilt are incomprehensible to the perpetratorsat this stage of the game because all significant players were for sale, andwere therefore immune to their own remorse. Is the Dem Congress Criminally Insane?
  • If relativity is all that incomprehensible why wasn't the matter dropped?
  • In her study of ufology, Jodi Dean comments that the discourse of ufologists claims to be reasonable, ‘but everyone else finds what they are saying incomprehensible.’
  • He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible. Undefined
  • She found his accent virtually incomprehensible.
  • He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
  • His wide Dundonian drawl also arguably makes this the most incomprehensible album since The Music Fix
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