INCOMPREHENSIBLE


Meaning of INCOMPREHENSIBLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

almost

How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own?

The subject matter was much too technical for her, many of the words almost incomprehensible .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

His English was incomprehensible .

It is incomprehensible that a tragedy like this could be joked about.

The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally incomprehensible to anyone outside the profession.

The logic of that agreement is completely incomprehensible .

thick, incomprehensible legal documents

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible .

For this was reality, as durable as it was crucial, as incontrovertible as it was incomprehensible .

The radical other-worldliness of such people seemed incomprehensible to the authorities.

There was some clicking, and then the muffled sound of a human voice making its usual incomprehensible noises.

There was the pain of light in her eyes and far off voices whose words were incomprehensible .

Three walls were covered by blackboards scrawled with incomprehensible symbols and equations.

What is incomprehensible , however, is the loss of status that goes with part time work.

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