as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
Some events, perhaps especially those that are morally incomprehensible, need to be wrestled with on a human level.
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Will Harris, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
To many others, the value of these relationships is incomprehensible.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
The idea of a child actor doing these stunts seems incomprehensible today, but the Cop and a Half star has a simple reason why those stunts were allowed.
—Mark Gray, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Drummer culture is its own tribe within the music world, with a language that’s designed to be incomprehensible to outsiders.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Will Harris, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
To many others, the value of these relationships is incomprehensible.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
The idea of a child actor doing these stunts seems incomprehensible today, but the Cop and a Half star has a simple reason why those stunts were allowed.
—Mark Gray, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Drummer culture is its own tribe within the music world, with a language that’s designed to be incomprehensible to outsiders.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
Adjective
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However, audio quality can make or break social media content and while some people can tolerate less-than-perfect video, poor and unintelligible sound often has audiences swiping left.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Airports and airplanes do not have a monopoly on unintelligible announcements.—
Michel A. Ibrahim,
Baltimore Sun,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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With the head of the Demon Corps in danger, Tanjiro and the Hashira rush to the headquarters but are plunged into a deep descent to a mysterious space by the hands of Muzan Kibutsuji.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Beyond this, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-Ray observatory also studied this spiral galaxy repeatedly and found mysterious regions known as ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs).—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For a disaster so vast and so unfathomable, some sort of grounding feels necessary, some little point to hold on to, some faces to remember, but even the actual story of the bus and its temporary inhabitants feels a touch too small for the grand scale Greengrass is working on here.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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And the way that people marginalize and attack the Trans community, especially politically, is unfathomable to me, and so unbearably cruel.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And determining when someone is dead is the critical but confusing question at play.—
Cara Anthony,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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For example, the eye glass space was largely fractured, confusing, and not customer-friendly before Warby Parker entered the scene with exceptional client experience, a focus on customer service and convenience, and a user-friendly product.—
Brandon Aversano,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Of course, the resemblance was uncanny, from their matching smiles to their auburn-red hair, which Julia wore down in loose waves and Emma styled in a messy ponytail.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
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The job requires an uncanny ability to sell each bit of incremental progress as a success in and of itself.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Unfortunately, tenure, even in the best schools, gets rewarded to professors who write articles filled with complex math or esoteric theories in sociology and psychology.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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While the syntax of esoteric languages may be hard to understand, the actual programming stack is often wonderfully simple.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Beyond that, however, pollen’s seemingly impenetrable shell—made up of the biopolymer sporopollenin—had long stumped researchers and limited its use.—
Sandy Ong,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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With time, trees even grew in the impenetrable ditch.—
Steven Franck,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For instance, in a now obscure 1944 speech, Franklin Delano Roosevelt argued that the American Revolution remained an incomplete project.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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Department and team-level metrics expose inefficiency that company-wide averages often obscure.—
Heidi Farris,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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