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/ɪŋkˌɑmprəhˈɛnsɪbəl/ Listen

adjective

Incomprehensible adj.

Not capable of being contained within limits. "An infinite and incomprehensible substance."

Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable. "And all her numbered stars that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible."

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Etymology of 'Incomprehensible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incomprehensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... and incomprehensible! You two sitting here and ignoring each other! Surely you don't ...

— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... mean? I fail to understand again," Miuesov interrupted. "Some sort of dream again. Something shapeless and even incomprehensible. What is excommunication? What sort of exclusion? I suspect you are ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... After this incomprehensible announcement, they walked on for some minutes in silence, broken only by occasional monosyllables, with which Coningsby responded at hazard to the sound remarks of Sir Joseph. As they approached the Palace a party of English who were visiting the Chamber of Peers, and who were acquainted ...

— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli

... from any definite cause of dread which his past experience might have given him, he felt that native and original horror of the excellent Judge which is proper to a weak, delicate, and apprehensive character in the presence of massive strength. Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. There is no greater bugbear than a strong-willed relative in the circle of ...

— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... taste, incomprehensible laziness, the ignorance of a savage, so much so that she regarded Doctor Derogis as a person of great celebrity, and she felt proud of entertaining himself and his wife, because they were "married people." She lectured with a pedantic air on ...

— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert

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