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Definition of "incomprehensible" []

  • Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible: incomprehensible jargon. (adjective)
  • Impossible to know or fathom: incomprehensible mysteries. (adjective)
  • Archaic Having no limits; boundless. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "incomprehensible" in a sentence
  • "And that is really what they call the incomprehensible demoralization and humiliation of alcoholism and that ` s usually what happens right before you hit bottom."
  • "The report said there was a lack of an appropriate response which it describes as "incomprehensible " in light of "the association's history of internal fraud" in recent years."
  • "February 19th, 2009 at 10: 08 am actually, don, it was the progressive labor faction that spoke in incomprehensible jargon, although your basic point about the weather underground – upper-middle class kids playing at revolution – is true."