incomprehensible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=com=pre=hen=si=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

incomprehensible, a. [L. incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompréhensible. See In- not, and Comprehensible.].

•  Not capable of being contained within limits.  [1913 Webster]

  "An infinite and incomprehensible substance."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.  [1913 Webster]

  "And all her numbered stars that seem to roll
  Spaces incomprehensible."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incomprehensible, adj. (often foll. by to) that cannot be understood.

Derivative

incomprehensibility n. incomprehensibleness n. incomprehensibly adv.

Etymology

ME f. L incomprehensibilis (as IN-(1), COMPREHENSIBLE)

THESAURUS

incomprehensible

Greek to one, abstruse, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, ambiguous, antic, arcane, baffling, beguiling, bewildering, beyond understanding, boundless, countless, cryptic, dark, deep, endless, enigmatic, eternal, exceptional, exhaustless, extending everywhere, extraordinary, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, impenetrable, impossible, inarticulate, incalculable, incognizable, incoherent, inconceivable, incredible, indecipherable, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, inscrutable, interminable, interminate, limitless, marvelous, measureless, miraculous, mysterious, mystifying, no end of, numinous, obscure, occult, opaque, outlandish, passing strange, past comprehension, perpetual, perplexing, phenomenal, prodigious, puzzling, rambling, rare, recondite, remarkable, sensational, shoreless, strange, striking, stupendous, sumless, termless, unaccountable, unbelievable, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unconnected, undecipherable, unexpected, unfathomable, unheard-of, unimaginable, unintelligible, unique, universal, unknowable, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unprecedented, unsearchable, untold, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number, wonderful, wondrous

ROGET THESAURUS

incomprehensible

Infinity

N infinity, infinitude, infiniteness, perpetuity, boundlessness, infinite, immense, numberless, countless, sumless, measureless, innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable, exhaustless, indefinite, without number, without measure, without limit, without end, incomprehensible, limitless, endless, boundless, termless, untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited, illimited, perpetual, infinitely, ad infinitum, as boundless as the sea.

Unintelligibility

N unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, imperspicuity, inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity, ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty, perplexity, spinosity, obscurum per obscurius, mystification, latency, transcendentalism, paradox, oxymoron, riddle, enigma, puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book, steganography, freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, jargon, unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable, incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, insolvable, insoluble, impenetrable, illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical, enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret), indecipherable, obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery, opaque, dense, undiscernible, misty, hidden, latent, indefinite, garbled, perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous, mysterious, mystic, mystical, acroamatic, acroamatical, metempirical, transcendental, occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed, inconceivable, inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable, unpredictable, unforeseeable, it's Greek to me.