as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
The scope of the effort is almost incomprehensible, both for its sheer size and persistence on a low-lying peninsula, where the delineation between land and sea has always been somewhat unclear and is becoming less so.
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Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
In these cases, the equations will predict a fluid moving in some unphysical, incomprehensible way — spinning into an impossibly fast vortex, for instance, or instantly reversing its flow.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
And in the grand tradition of parents not understanding kids’ slang, parents often find messages incomprehensible, which isn’t unusual, noted Nixon.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2026
The story is now so bogged down as to be incomprehensible.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
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Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
In these cases, the equations will predict a fluid moving in some unphysical, incomprehensible way — spinning into an impossibly fast vortex, for instance, or instantly reversing its flow.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
And in the grand tradition of parents not understanding kids’ slang, parents often find messages incomprehensible, which isn’t unusual, noted Nixon.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2026
The story is now so bogged down as to be incomprehensible.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 2025
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A number of individuals who were in that classroom told authorities that the gunman shouted an unintelligible statement and then began shooting students.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The other is a smaller, more mysterious handheld chunk of willow or poplar wood that may have been used to shape stone tools, according to research published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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But when a mysterious woman opens The Grand Lisbon restaurant, his glittering world begins to fracture, exposing the fragile balance between success, memory, and longing.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The steely husks stood sentinel over unfathomable loss for weeks or months until they were towed away and sold as scrap.—
Marah Eakin,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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In Grasso’s Garage this week, another wagon, but with unfathomable usage, power, styling, and, most importantly, comfort!—
Marc D. Grasso,
Boston Herald,
15 Jan. 2026
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As an avalanche and dead bodies ratchet up the suspense, Zach must lean on his mother’s wisdom to fight for his life while deciphering a confusing undercurrent of danger, violence and betrayal among the survivors.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Yeah, this is pretty confusing on the surface.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the work, traditional folklore and marvelous, uncanny incidents are often the sites of resistance against colonialism or enslavement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Boy Who Knew Too Much tells the true story of a young boy named Christian Haupt, who, from a very young age, displays an uncanny knowledge of baseball and vivid memories of a past life as Lou Gehrig, the famous Yankee.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Deadly wildfires, immigration raids, and an esoteric yet expensive battle about redrawing congressional districts are among the topics that dominated headlines in the state last year.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The debate may seem esoteric, given the party brand issues Democrats have contended with and the fact that the 2028 election is still years away.—
Hunter Woodall,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Getting a loan approved could open doors that were previously closed to you, and receiving help and support from others could melt walls that previously felt impenetrable.—
Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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In a refreshing departure from so many impenetrable Marvel series past, creators Deston Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest expediently fill in viewers on the essential points of Trevor’s backstory.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Malcolm’s subjects are very old-school, doctrinaire, rigid Freudian psychoanalysts who get involved in impossibly obscure academic debates.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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But then last January, an obscure AI startup named DeepSeek released a generative AI platform, R1, which was comparable to ChatGPT but purporting to use just a fraction of Nvidia’s bleeding-edge chips.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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