Incomprehensible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incomprehensible \In*com`pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L.
     incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompr['e]hensible. See {In-}
     not, and {Comprehensible}.]
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     1. Not capable of being contained within limits.
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              An infinite and incomprehensible substance.
                                                    --Hooker.
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     2. Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond
        the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.
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              And all her numbered stars that seem to roll
              Spaces incomprehensible.              --Milton.
        -- {In*com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness}, n. --
        {In*com`pre*hen"si*bly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incomprehensible
       adj 1: incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable
              errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for
              inexplicable reasons" [syn: {inexplicable}] [ant: {explicable}]
       2: difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing
          about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A.
          Einstein [syn: {uncomprehensible}] [ant: {comprehensible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "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