as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
How he was even charged as a result of this situation is incomprehensible.
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Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Voyager 1 also spent months sending incomprehensible data back to Earth, until NASA teams figured out a fix.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
The new figure, however, is just as incomprehensible — a 1 with 78 zeros.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Yeah, the whole thing is basically incomprehensible.
—A Martínez, NPR, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Voyager 1 also spent months sending incomprehensible data back to Earth, until NASA teams figured out a fix.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
The new figure, however, is just as incomprehensible — a 1 with 78 zeros.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Yeah, the whole thing is basically incomprehensible.
—A Martínez, NPR, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
Adjective
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As satire, Next to Heaven is unintelligible, as though someone is universalizing their own hangups and then skewering them for clout.—
Book Marks
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Filled with uncanny creatures and unintelligible language, the book's inspiration came, Serafini muses, either from aliens, or his cat.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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All do so, apart from the titular madman, who has a mysterious reason to stay behind.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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The story in the graphic novel picks up 10 years after the events of the eponymous 1980 movie, as Joliet Jake disappears from prison under mysterious circumstances.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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McNeeley was about 4, and playing against first graders, 6- and 7-year olds, which is almost unfathomable.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
25 June 2025
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In a turn that once seemed unfathomable, Spanish-language music has become a mainstay in the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts, and in 2024 Latin music in the U.S. reached a record-breaking $1.4 billion in revenue.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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In Girls with Long Shadows, the triplets are linked by that uncanny psychological and physical sibling familiarity; if one sister has a headache, the other two’s temples pulse with empathetic pain.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 June 2025
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That the vice president would be more amusing with less hair, a perfectly rounded face, and an uncanny, doll-like stare?—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Of course, Yamagata is a long way to go just to peep some jellyfish, so combine a visit with the misty temples of nearby Dewa Sanzan, three mountains sacred to the ascetics of the esoteric Shugendo religion.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
27 May 2025
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They: • Invest not just in systems, but in states • Optimize not just for growth, but for resonance • Scale not from stress, but from coherence This isn’t esoteric.—
Carrie Anne Yu,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Built inside a mountain some 300 feet underground and reinforced by layers of concrete, the plant, which is the most likely target of a potential American strike, is impenetrable by any bomb except the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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This must be key to Trump’s impenetrable calculations.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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This obscure law vested NOAA with the authority to issue permits for mining beyond American jurisdiction until an international regime was put in place.—
Time,
Time,
17 June 2025
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That Davis exhibited but ultimately painted over the other two works in his geometric series might suggest some dissatisfaction with their admittedly obscure nature.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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The cryptic introduction is a subtle nod to the bartenders that the patron is about to order one of four drinks from the Burning Blade secret menu.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 June 2025
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Alongside firsthand accounts from cops, journalists, and survivors, the series unpacks how fear spread through the streets, fueled by cryptic letters, a frenzied press, and a killer who seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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