adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own?
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The subject matter was much too technical for her, many of the words almost incomprehensible .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His English was incomprehensible .
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It is incomprehensible that a tragedy like this could be joked about.
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The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally incomprehensible to anyone outside the profession.
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The logic of that agreement is completely incomprehensible .
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thick, incomprehensible legal documents
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible .
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For this was reality, as durable as it was crucial, as incontrovertible as it was incomprehensible .
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The radical other-worldliness of such people seemed incomprehensible to the authorities.
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There was some clicking, and then the muffled sound of a human voice making its usual incomprehensible noises.
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There was the pain of light in her eyes and far off voices whose words were incomprehensible .
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Three walls were covered by blackboards scrawled with incomprehensible symbols and equations.
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What is incomprehensible , however, is the loss of status that goes with part time work.