ununderstandable
ununderstandable adjective: not understandable; that cannot be understood.
Adjective
ununderstandable (comparative more ununderstandable, superlative most ununderstandable)
- Not understandable; that cannot be understood.
- Cameron was for closing the discussion as useless and ununderstandable.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 139
- But to report an item or sequence of behaviour as radically ununderstandable is to say that it is so inaccessible to any possible explanation[…]1983, Walter Garrison Runciman, A treatise on social theory
- Synonyms:
- incomprehensible, nonunderstandable, abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, bottomless, Greek, inapprehensible
Synonyms of ununderstandable
Forms of ununderstandable
| comparative | more ununderstandable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ununderstandable |
Origin of ununderstandable
From un- + understandable.
Words formed from ununderstandable
Questions about ununderstandable
- What does ununderstandable mean?
- Ununderstandable means not understandable; that cannot be understood.
- What part of speech is ununderstandable?
- Ununderstandable is an adjective.
Words near ununderstandable in the dictionary
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