Adjective: incomprehensible
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more incomprehensible |
| Superlative | most incomprehensible |
Sample Sentences
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But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream. [1904-09, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, published 1962]
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:]
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He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.' [1990, Greg Bear, Heads:]
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Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia. [2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:]
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Prayer to God the Father: It is fitting and right to sing to You, to bless You, to praise You, to give thanks to You, to worship You in every place of your dominion: for You are God, beyond description, beyond understanding, invisible, incomprehensible, always existing, always the same; You and your only-begotten Son and your Holy Spirit [1969, “The Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom: Liturgy of Offering”, in Joseph Raya, transl., edited by José de Vinck, Byzantine Daily Worship, Alleluia Press, page 282:]
Adjectives inflected like incomprehensible
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Italic *n̥-
5. Latin in-
6. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
7. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
8. Proto-Italic *kom
9. Proto-Italic *kom-
10. Latin con-
11. Proto-Indo-European *per-
12. Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
13. Proto-Indo-European *-i
14. Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
15. Proto-Italic *prai
16. Proto-Italic *prai-
17. Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-
18. Proto-Indo-European *-né-
19. Proto-Indo-European *-ti
20. Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti
21. Proto-Italic *hendō
22. Proto-Italic *praiɣendō
23. Latin prehendō
24. Latin comprehendō
25. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
26. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
27. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
28. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
29. Latin -bilis
30. Latin comprehēnsibilis
31. Latin incomprehēnsibilisbor.
32. Middle French incomprehensibleder.
33. English incomprehensible
34. From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehēnsibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible. See: Latin Adjectives '
incomprehēnsibilis'.