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incomprehensiblein‧com‧pre‧hen‧si‧ble /ɪnˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl $ -ˌkɑːm-/ ●○○ adjective   - His English was incomprehensible.
- It is incomprehensible that a tragedy like this could be joked about.
- The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally incomprehensible to anyone outside the profession.
- The logic of that agreement is completely incomprehensible.
- thick, incomprehensible legal documents
- Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible.
- For this was reality, as durable as it was crucial, as incontrovertible as it was incomprehensible.
- The radical other-worldliness of such people seemed incomprehensible to the authorities.
- There was some clicking, and then the muffled sound of a human voice making its usual incomprehensible noises.
- There was the pain of light in her eyes and far off voices whose words were incomprehensible.
- Three walls were covered by blackboards scrawled with incomprehensible symbols and equations.
- What is incomprehensible, however, is the loss of status that goes with part time work.
difficult or impossible to understand► puzzling a puzzling situation makes you feel confused, because you have tried to understand it or explain it, but you cannot: · The police are investigating the puzzling death of a man found on the freeway.· Alzheimer's disease is one of medicine's most puzzling and feared illnesses.· The fact that many people still do not understand this basic concept is both puzzling and troubling. ► baffling extremely difficult or impossible to understand, and therefore making you feel extremely confused: · To an ordinary person, the legal arguments were baffling.· New evidence has provided a clue to one of the most baffling crimes the police have had to deal with. ► incomprehensible impossible to understand: · His English was incomprehensible.it is incomprehensible that: · It is incomprehensible that a tragedy like this could be joked about.incomprehensible to: · The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally incomprehensible to anyone outside the profession. ► unintelligible speech or writing that is unintelligible is impossible to understand because it is not clear, simple, or well planned: · Joe muttered something unintelligible, clasping his head in his hands.· Radio transmissions were often cut off or unintelligible. ► incoherent incoherent speech is very difficult to understand, especially because the person who is speaking is drunk, ill, or very angry: · Harris gave rambling, incoherent answers to questions about the case.· She was clearly very ill, and at times her speech was incoherent. ► obscure a statement, joke, or idea that is obscure is very difficult to understand because the meaning is not clear unless it is carefully explained to you: · Best's art is eccentric and obscure.· Publishers would not print his earlier poetry because they felt it was too obscure. ADVERB► almost· How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own?· The subject matter was much too technical for her, many of the words almost incomprehensible. difficult or impossible to understand:  legal documents full of incomprehensible jargon I find your attitude quite incomprehensible.incomprehensible to His accent made his speech incomprehensible to me.—incomprehensibly adverb—incomprehensibility /ɪnˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti $ -ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable] |