as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
Europeans, Bennett notes, find this genuinely incomprehensible.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
Ashly's death is an incomprehensible tragedy.
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Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians.
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David Faris,
TheWeek,
13 Apr. 2026
Arthur is a creepy dude, a generic-looking cellphone store employee with an incomprehensible plan.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
Ashly's death is an incomprehensible tragedy.
—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians.
—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
13 Apr. 2026
Arthur is a creepy dude, a generic-looking cellphone store employee with an incomprehensible plan.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
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The world premiere on Sunday – in the presence of Illumination boss Chris Meledandri and director Pierre Coffin, who is also the origin of the minions’ unintelligible chatter – kicks off one of the biggest Annecy Film Festival’s yet.
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The adversaries made for a striking scene, exchanging insults in mutually unintelligible languages in the dead of night.
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Translation is a very mysterious thing because my goal is to create something that’s deeply equivalent but uses zero of the same words.
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That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives.
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Two months of heavy rainfall resulted in then-unfathomable devastation that still reverberates today.
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To some, the Galatasaray forward’s selection in the starting line-up is unfathomable and is now being used to portray Nagelsmann as stubborn or unwilling to react to performances.
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Messaging about what’s in the air has been confusing.
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If the experience feels confusing or unreliable, employees may under-contribute or disengage altogether.
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The 6-foot-11 Condon rebounds relentlessly, protects the rim, delivers uncanny passes and makes winning plays, none bigger than his hustle to secure Florida’s comeback victory against Houston in the 2025 national championship game.
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Like Buster Keaton before him, Knoxville has an uncanny awareness of how his death-defying escapades appear on camera.
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Afterwards, group members went on to form several other hugely meaningful outfits such as Slint, Gastr Del Sol, Bastro, Papa M and the For Carnation, transmuting Squirrel Bait’s Reagan-era aggression into more esoteric, impossible-to-classify sonic explorations.
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This offers the do-it-yourself warrior a simple, direct route from antiquated lead-acid to state-of-the-art lithium without having to search for esoteric parts online.
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In spite of D'Arcy's best efforts, Rhaenyra is an impenetrable character with illogical choices and zero magnetism to the viewers (or seemingly, her councilors).
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The Shiatsung Project In a bungalow surrounded by an impenetrable wall, a woman has been raised in isolation by a talking screen mounted on the living room wall, fullfilling her every wish without ever revealing the reasons for its life and existence.
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When that’s not enough, Google may add random noise to the data that can further obscure identities.
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This seems, if anything, deliberately obscure.
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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