Incomprehensible
[,ɪnkɒmprɪ'hensɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn,kɑmprɪ'hɛnsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) difficult to understand; 'the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible'- A. Einstein .
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Definition
(a.) Not capable of being contained within limits.
(a.) Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inconceivable, unimaginable, not to be comprehended, past finding out, beyond the reach of human faculties.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mysterious, unfathomable, enigmatical
ANT:Comprehensible, cognizable, plain
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Definition
adj. not capable of being understood: not to be contained within limits.—ns. Incomprehensibil′ity Incomprehen′sibleness Incomprehen′sion.—adv. Incomprehen′sibly.—adj. Incomprehen′sive limited.—n. Incomprehen′siveness.
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Examples
- You are incomprehensible this morning,' said Louisa. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is derived from principles as natural as any of these above-explained. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It would make a man so ridiculous, after going in for these fellows, to back out in such an incomprehensible way. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was inexcusable, incomprehensible! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Its theology was incomprehensible to her, and her own mind was too busy, teeming, wandering, to listen to the language of another mind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Its mechanism was so incomprehensible to most people that they refused to regard it seriously. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- On my sacred word of honour it is lucky for Society that modern chemists are, by incomprehensible good fortune, the most harmless of mankind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That which informs it all is there, and can never be loSt. After all, what is mankind but just one expression of the incomprehensible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Those words express another of his incomprehensible oddities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Wot a incomprehensible letter,' said Sam; 'who's to know wot it means, vith all this he-ing and I-ing! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Oh, Elinor, how incomprehensible are your feelings! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The lecture, being therefore one of the last, was entirely incomprehensible to me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The notion of any correction beyond what we have instruments and art to make, is a mere fiction of the mind, and useless as well as incomprehensible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The thing was incomprehensible to Tip, and altogether a fanciful notion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We can as little reply, that it exists in every part: For then we must suppose it figured and extended; which is absurd and incomprehensible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was so completely incomprehensible and irrational. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Now what is our idea of the moving body, without which motion is incomprehensible? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Humanity doesn't embody the utterance of the incomprehensible any more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then, Mr. Rouncewell, returns Sir Leicester, the application of what you have said is, to me, incomprehensible. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have been told an incomprehensible thing, she said mournfully. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I believe the theme of this incomprehensible conundrum was the moon. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If there was one thing wanting to bewilder me it was this incomprehensible thing! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These women are incomprehensible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Most of the barbarian invaders of the empire were Arians; probably because their simple minds found the Trinitarian position incomprehensible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In the instant, I had seen a face that was strange to me, looking up with an incomprehensible air of being touched and pleased by the sight of me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mr Sloppy still continued his singular, and on the surface his incomprehensible, movement. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The lives of great men, of heroes and leaders, make concrete and vital historic episodes otherwise abstract and incomprehensible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- My own experience explains Miss Verinder's otherwise incomprehensible conduct. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And as she went up the path to her strange house, her heart was full of incomprehensible bitterness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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