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• The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.From the entry improve
• The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.From the entry vocabulary
• Ned was a horrible jabberer about Star Trek; I could hardly get a word in edgewise around his incomprehensible techno-babble.From the entry jabberer
• Being written in a newly discovered language the Kalasmaic text is as yet largely incomprehensible.2023 September 21, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, “New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey”, in…. From the entry Kalasmaic
• New metaphors are created, a new language, which seems to us Babylonically confused and incomprehensible.2020, Anne-Marie Schlösser, editor, A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Babylonically
• Incomprehensible violence and the tragedy that follows, the implication goes, inject a surreal dimension into existence.2017 June 16, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Dizzying, Surreal Journey of ‘The Leftovers’”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN. From the entry surreal
• No writer he read had ever communicated that feeling of an incomprehensible madness.2011, Jason Zinoman, Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror, New…. From the entry overheated
• They seemed to learn so slowly, perhaps because much they had to learn was incomprehensible to them.2002 April, Lloyd Biggle Jr., The Chronocide Mission, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry old schooler
• The lettercol is nearly incomprehensible, filled with references to some obscure in-group word, "prime".1971 November, Jerry Kaufman, “The Flophouse?”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 5, page 30. From the entry lettercol
• The comprehension of unformable laws may seem rather an incomprehensible proposition.1967, Burleigh Taylor Wilkins, Carl Becker: a biographical study in American intellectual history. From the entry unformable
• The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life.1964, Jack Hale Prost, Readings on human evolution, page 15. From the entry fourhandedness
• To the general public, araneophobes all (just plain scared of spiders), such devotion is incomprehensible.1955 November 12, William E. Oriol, “Who’s Afraid Of Spiders?: Many People Are, But Not This Ramsey Scientist, Who Is Fascinated By Them”…. From the entry araneophobe
• The decline of the Merovings was not due to some mysterious force incomprehensible to the human brain.1932, George Philip Baker, Charlemagne and the United States of Europe, page 220. From the entry Meroving
• "It is incomprehensible," replied Sir Fergus, dropping his voice so that the old man could not overhear.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry overhear
• He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128. From the entry featherless
• Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong.2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN…. From the entry english
• Sitting at the table with my mother and my brother's mother-in-law, their chatting suddenly morphed into incomprehensible baffle-gabble, an abstract gabfest.2021, Michael Elliston, The Original Frontier: A Serious Seeker's Guide to Zen. From the entry baffle-gabble
• It’s true that things that seem very zeitgeisty at the moment may be incomprehensible to future generations,” he said.2015 January 16, Jessica Bennett, “At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry memey
• Lamond, a lot of people find baseball jargon incomprehensible.2012 February 25, “As Video Gaming Goes Pro, Viewers Pay Up”, in NPR, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2012. From the entry StarCrafter
• Someone had got hold of a bullhorn and was bellowing out instructions that, thanks to screels of feedback, were utterly incomprehensible.2011, Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, →ISBN, page 480. From the entry screel
• If the traditional Arab and Islamic scholars are to be believed, the Ḥimyaritic language was incomprehensible to a speaker of Arabic.2007, Christian Robin, edited by Versteegh, Kees, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 257b. From the entry Himyaritic
• Much ink has been spilt bemoaning that incomprehensible foundation of hospital cost accounting and prices, the redoubtable chargemaster.2007, James C. Robinson, “Price Transparency Begins at Home”, in Frontiers of Health Services Management, volume 23, number 3, American…. From the entry chargemaster
• Voluble, almost incomprehensible, mad as a fish and perpetually drunk.2006, Damon Hammond, Totally Steaming: A Year on HMS Fearless, page 202. From the entry mad as a fish
• It is truly incomprehensible to this day.2004, Sara Gwenllian-Jones, Roberta E. Pearson, Cult Television, page 73. From the entry bodacious
• These verses are directed to individuals who don't acknowledge the incomprehensible aspects of God as represented by His wondrous creationary power.2002, Robert A. Herrmann, Science Declares Our Universe Is Intelligently Designed, page 209. From the entry creationary
• Incomprehensible to the reader of his own philosophemes which arise from want of cleverness in his own thinking.1994, Dan Potter, “Real Philosophy minus Pretense: Searle on Schelling”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, →DOI. From the entry philosopheme
• The value of this becomes evident when one deals with O'Brien's almost incomprehensible scrivenry in other private collections.1976, Joseph V. O'Brien, William O'Brien and the Course of Irish Politics, 1881–1918, Berkeley, C.A.; Los Angeles, C.A.; London…. From the entry scrivenry
• "Only the bodies, of which this eternal, imperishable, incomprehensible Self is the indweller, are said to have an end."1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29. From the entry indweller
• Such is the incomprehensible psychology of the mob.1917, Harris Dickson, s:The Unpopular History of the United States by Uncle Sam Himself, Chapter 14. From the entry stand fire
• There are detours and incomprehensible delays.2024 April 22, Adrian Searle, “Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry longueur
• We think of America as a familiar place, yet it is in so many ways as incomprehensible to outsiders as it has always been.2010 July 13, Mary O'Hara, “It's the people who provide a real insight into US politics”, in The Guardian. From the entry aspirationalism
• The idea of Protestant ministers touching the body of Christ (the bread) with great love and tenderness like the priest described is almost incomprehensible.2007, Colin James Isbister, The Body of Christ, page 99. From the entry lose the plot
• Even publisher Knight Landesman told us at the Anna Kustera opening that Christopher Knight's incomprehensible piece on Johns was "an absolute failure."1998, Walter Robinson, Tom Patchett, Most art sucks: five years of Coagula. From the entry featurewise
• The first one, for instance, is quite incomprehensible out of context, and will be dismissed by any bascophone hearing it without other explanation.1989, Bernard Oyharçabal, “Pro-drop and the Resumptive Pronoun Strategy in Basque”, in László Marácz, Pieter Muysken, editors…. From the entry bascophone
• Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them.1978, Patsy Adam-Smith, chapter X, in The ANZACS, page 102. From the entry Australianese
• He was very found of this queer rhyming slang, most of which must be omitted from any record of his talk because it is incomprehensible to ordinary people.1929 July, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “Mr. Oakroyd on t’Road”, in The Good Companions, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry Rosie Lee
• But something was shaping up—something incomprehensible and vast, concerning the Hub Worlds, something that was apparently tangled in and directly related to tens of thousands of years of interacting histories.2012, Ted White, Sideslip. From the entry hub world

Meaning of incomprehensible

1. adjective Impossible or very difficult to understand.
2. adjective Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite.
3. noun Anything that is beyond understanding.

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How do you use incomprehensible in a sentence?

Incomprehensible is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.”

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“'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible.”

What does incomprehensible mean?

Incomprehensible means impossible or very difficult to understand.