as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
His way through was by finding connection with a character whose deeds seem incomprehensible.
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
Charlie's family has suffered an incredible, incomprehensible injustice.
—Ted Cruz, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
In fact, the movie isn’t really scary at all — just extremely weird, as well as increasingly incomprehensible toward the end.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
Charlie's family has suffered an incredible, incomprehensible injustice.
—Ted Cruz, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
In fact, the movie isn’t really scary at all — just extremely weird, as well as increasingly incomprehensible toward the end.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
Adjective
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The removal of Spears' Instagram account comes after years of public concern and defense over her social media presence, in which the pop star has been seen posting dance videos (including with knives), sometimes with unintelligible and bizarre captions.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The vendor said some other things that were unintelligible because of the overlap between her live speech and the lagging translation.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Tell us which creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky anthem is your favorite to listen to during Halloween time — or at any point in the year — by voting in the poll below.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
30 Oct. 2025
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As the unloved surviving son of a cruel father, he was approached by a wizard who offered him gold to secretly feed a mysterious hedgehog-faced monster in a cave.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Advisers were on hand to teach them the nuances of the Situation Room and the importance of maintaining calm under unfathomable stress.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This last episode was much more confusing than usual.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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The fragmentation of this reality has made things exciting, confusing, and frustrating for the average individual who, when walking into a dispensary for the first time, is confronted with a wall of packages and detailed, jargony labels.—
Carly Fisher,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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Blending the two forms requires a keen eye for visuals and an uncanny sense of the surreal.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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The stunning Louvre museum heist earlier this week in Paris offers an uncanny encapsulation of the broader society-wide phenomenon.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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From slasher homages like Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue to esoteric but no less worthy films like Belladonna of Sadness, these works possess a power to shock and terrify.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Other of these esoteric features might actually be worth seeking out.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Yes, only two additional albums in 30 years since his 1995 debut, with a 14-year gap between the second and third, but an impenetrable recipe for everyone from Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar.—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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For instance, in The Trial, Kafka looks at alienation vis-à-vis a faceless, impenetrable bureaucracy.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Even then, though, the path is obscure.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Many years have passed since nursing home patients lived in the Redlands Road building, the obscure permit on which the occupancy rested has lapsed.—
Lou Murray,
Boston Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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