as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
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.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
The incomprehensible war with Iran was the last straw.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
Chloe’s arrival felt almost incomprehensible to a couple who once believed parenthood was out of reach.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
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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.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
The incomprehensible war with Iran was the last straw.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
Chloe’s arrival felt almost incomprehensible to a couple who once believed parenthood was out of reach.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 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.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
19 June 2026
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The adversaries made for a striking scene, exchanging insults in mutually unintelligible languages in the dead of night.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
23 June 2026
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That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
23 June 2026
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
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The lack of a competitive instinct from any of the cable carriers is unfathomable, very similar to Smith Corona Marchant, which filed for reorganization in 1995.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
14 June 2026
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Those themes are compelling on paper, but they’re expressed through a confusing mix of abstraction and hyper-local specificity, hidden beneath biker rock riffs, and obscured through Allbrook’s wiry, wailing vocal delivery.—
Cassidy Sollazzo,
Pitchfork,
19 June 2026
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Project proposals said the lanes are underutilized and confusing to drivers.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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Or a cartoony hamburger that is doing a little too much — the cheese drip a little too textured, the shine on the bun a little uncanny.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
22 June 2026
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Strong opening performances have fueled this intensity, which paradoxically arises from their uncanny parallels as footballing nations.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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His esoteric sidewalk pasta pop-up, Estrano, happens sporadically.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Such a fracture would normally sink a band, especially one that had been active for a decade, with five ambitious, esoteric albums to their credit and a solid, but perhaps not growing, fan base.—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
12 June 2026
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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.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
18 June 2026
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For 82 games and three-plus playoff rounds, the bunker remained impenetrable.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
9 June 2026
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The interlocking puzzle of the iPhone, GPS and Google Maps was a moment when multiple strands of technological development, some of them obscure and many with deep links to the US military, converged into a single life-changing package.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
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What has changed in recent years, however, is that prediction markets are no longer an obscure pastime enjoyed by political junkies.—
Matt Motta,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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