as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
In fact, the movie isn’t really scary at all — just extremely weird, as well as increasingly incomprehensible toward the end.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Some events, perhaps especially those that are morally incomprehensible, need to be wrestled with on a human level.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
To many others, the value of these relationships is incomprehensible.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Some events, perhaps especially those that are morally incomprehensible, need to be wrestled with on a human level.
—Will Harris, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
To many others, the value of these relationships is incomprehensible.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for incomprehensible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
Adjective
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The vendor said some other things that were unintelligible because of the overlap between her live speech and the lagging translation.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Gehman, then a graduate student earning a doctorate in disease ecology, had heard about a mysterious illness sweeping through the Pacific coast’s iconic invertebrates.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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Since its discovery in 2009, scientists have made little headway in understanding the mysterious origins of these excess gamma rays.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Not after another season of beautiful dreams ended in the most painful, most unfathomable way possible, even by Phillies standards.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Specifically the perimenopausal timeframe can be very confusing both to a clinician and a patient in the sense that there are a lot of symptoms that are hard to navigate and understand.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
15 Oct. 2025
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The twice-a-year clock change can be a bit confusing, especially to Arizonans who don't observe the practice.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Max Schreck’s uncanny performance and makeup design were absolutely mesmerizing, as was the film’s unparalleled haunting atmosphere, made all the more palpable by the grainy 16mm transfer to VHS.—
Robert Eggers,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Sora 2 app was released late last month and has already caused controversy for its uncanny ability to create realistic videos generated by AI.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Other of these esoteric features might actually be worth seeking out.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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Duran had published articles on Tan and his wealthy colleagues, like Balaji Srinivasan, a tech investor who was promoting an esoteric but stubbornly influential concept called the Network State.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Yes, only two additional albums in 30 years since his 1995 debut, with a 14-year gap between the second and third, but an impenetrable recipe for everyone from Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar.—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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For instance, in The Trial, Kafka looks at alienation vis-à-vis a faceless, impenetrable bureaucracy.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And yet, as the 2008 financial crisis showed, trouble on Main Street can start in obscure corners of Wall Street.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Sasagawa searched YouTube for old and obscure emo bands, and came across a 2012 upload of Everyone Asked About You’s vinyl album.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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