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Definition of Incomprehensible

1. Adjective. Incapable of being explained or accounted for. "Left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons"

2. Adjective. Difficult to understand. "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"

Definition of Incomprehensible

1. a. Not capable of being contained within limits.

Definition of Incomprehensible

1. Adjective. impossible or very difficult to understand ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incomprehensible

incompletenesses incompletes incompletion incompletions incomplex incompliable incompliance incompliant incomposed incomposite

incompossibilities incompossibility incompossible incomprehense incomprehensibility incomprehensible (current term) incomprehensibleness incomprehensibly incomprehension incomprehensive

incomprehensively incompressibilities incompressibility incompressible incomputability incomputable incomputably incomunicado inconcealable inconceivabilities

Literary usage of Incomprehensible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"... it must seem above the powers of men to comprehend even the first fluxions. And if the first are incomprehensible, what shall we ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"This he holds to be an incomprehensible mystery. He is content to define the actual distinction between Father and Son by saying that the former is God ..."

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