incomprehensible

From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/

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incomprehensible (comparative more incomprehensible, superlative most incomprehensible)

1. impossible or very difficult to understand.
   • Greg Bear, Heads, 1990

     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.'

   • Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth, (posthumous) 1962

     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.

• fathomless, unfathomable, unintelligible; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

• comprehensible, understandable; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible

• incomprehension

incomprehensible (plural incomprehensibles)

1. Anything that is beyond understanding.

• incomprehensible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incomprehensible in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

First known attestation 1314, borrowed from Latin incomprehensibilis[1].

incomprehensible m or f (plural incomprehensibles)

1. incomprehensible