as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
And as the discourse around it keeps stacking up, what started as a silly turn of phrase has devolved into an incomprehensible mess that’s preventing people from noticing the much more insidious shift around them.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
This is because for the first Daemon X Machina, the story was an incomprehensible mess.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
The first months of 2025 have felt like a movie suddenly speeding up, images rushing by so fast that the dialogue is an almost incomprehensible gabble.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
The series of posts demonstrated Mr. Cooper’s gift for asking one side to inhabit the seemingly incomprehensible mind-set of the other.
—Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
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Airports and airplanes do not have a monopoly on unintelligible announcements.—
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As satire, Next to Heaven is unintelligible, as though someone is universalizing their own hangups and then skewering them for clout.—
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Sometimes an oven is like that mysterious black box on a magician's stage where odd things go in, and something far more delightful comes out.—
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Things took a turn after the former couple found their dog Musso chewing on a mysterious object.—
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And beyond the unfathomable human toll, the costs to consumers and businesses are surging.—
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As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches in late August, viewers can expect a slew of reflective documentaries confronting that fathomable/unfathomable dichotomy — projects made without expectations of equaling When the Levees Broke, but with a different imperative in mind.—
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With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.—
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The uncanny aspects of the film, first seen in a prologue in which a pair of search dogs becomes abnormally obsessed with each other after venturing into the cavern, initially manifest for Millie and Tim as a strange stickiness.—
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The concern is understandable since the result could well become something too esoteric or scholarly for its own good.—
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Thus, every Sunday there would be a large gathering of family on the farm to enjoy an esoteric dark roux gumbo.—
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Frere-Jones manages to make Hardwick’s sometimes impenetrable prose sound like the coolest hat trick.—
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Royal carriages are, of course, not quite as impenetrable as the presidential state car, nicknamed The Beast.—
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People usually think of investigative reporting as relying on obscure documents and dry financial data.—
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Greer's statement comes a day after the government argued before an 11 judge panel at the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals that Trump's authority to make wholesale changes to tariff rates stems from an obscure trade law known as IEEPA.—
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Whether the pair will do more to promote the album than share cryptic corresponding Instagram posts remains to be seen.—
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The news comes days after posters appeared around New York City featuring Roan’s face and a cryptic reference to Aug. 1.—
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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