incomprehensible

See also incompréhensible

English

Etymology

From Latin incomprehensibilis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɪnkɑmprəhɛnsɪbəl/

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Adjective

incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)

1. impossible or very difficult to understand
   • Greg Bear, Heads, 1990

     He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'

   • Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth, 1938

     But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.

Synonyms

• unfathomable
• fathomless

Antonyms

• comprehensible
• understandable

Translations

impossible or very difficult to understand

• Albanian: pakuptueshëm (sq)
• Armenian: անհասկանալի (hy) (anhaskanali)
• Catalan: incomprensible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 難以理解的 (cmn), 难以理解的 (cmn) (nányǐ lǐjiě de), 費解的 (cmn), 费解的 (cmn) (fèijiě de)

• Dutch: onbegrijpelijk
• Finnish: käsittämätön (fi)
• French: incompréhensible (fr) m and f
• German: unverständlich (de), unbegreiflich (de), unfassbar (de)
• Greek: ακατανόητος (el) (akatanóitos)

• Hungarian: érthetetlen (hu), megfoghatatlan (hu), felfoghatatlan (hu)
• Italian: incomprensibile (it)
• Polish: niezrozumiały (pl)
• Portuguese: incompreensível (pt)
• Russian: непонятный (ru) (neponjátnyj), непостижимый (ru) (nepostižímyj), невразумительный (ru) (nevrazumítelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: do-thuigsinneach (gd)
• Spanish: incomprensible (es)
• Swedish: obegriplig (sv)
• Turkish: anlaşılmaz (tr)

External links

• incomprehensible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• incomprehensible in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911