incomprehensible
adjective/ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbl/
/ɪnˌkɑːmprɪˈhensəbl/
- incomprehensible (to somebody) impossible to understand synonym unintelligible
- Some application forms can be incomprehensible to ordinary people.
- He found his son's actions totally incomprehensible.
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagec1- She found his accent virtually incomprehensible.
- From a child's point of view, adult behaviour is often just as incomprehensible.
- Their dialect is incomprehensible to most speakers of Standard English.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- remain
- …
- completely
- totally
- utterly
- …
- to
Word Originlate Middle English (earlier than comprehensible): from Latin incomprehensibilis, from in- ‘not’ + comprehensibilis (from comprehens- ‘seized, comprised’, from the verb comprehendere, from com- ‘together’ + prehendere ‘grasp’).
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