as in unintelligible
impossible to understand
rocket science is incomprehensible to most people
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Recent Examples of incomprehensible
But once again, as has been their pattern for much of the season, the Panthers followed a massive win with a nearly incomprehensible loss.
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Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Dec. 2025
The idea of making a run for the border may be incomprehensible to the grandmother, but Ameen imagines many different paths to freedom, opening up all the more opportunities to attain it.
—Stephen Saito, Variety, 5 Dec. 2025
That would have been an impossible argument to make, even with the Giants’ incomprehensible habit of blowing late leads.
—Dan Duggan, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
But there is a certain intangible that becomes tangible when Denver continues to win in the most incomprehensible of ways.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomprehensible
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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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A number of individuals who were in that classroom told authorities that the gunman shouted an unintelligible statement and then began shooting students.—
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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
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The Columbus, Ohio, police chief is speaking out for the first time since the mysterious murders of dentist Spencer Tepe and his wife, Monique Tepe.—
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God grant me the grace to forgive also, despite my unfathomable trauma.—
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On the contrary, over his previous four games (featuring three Knicks losses), Towns shot 4-of-9 from the field against the New Orleans Pelicans, 5-of-10 against the San Antonio Spurs, 6-of-16 against the Philadelphia 76ers and an unfathomable one-of-four against the Detroit Pistons.—
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While airline miles are easier to earn than ever, using them well—and maximizing their value—can often feel confusing.—
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Choose decisive steps over a confusing kerfuffle!—
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Some of Lilo’s predictions have gone viral for their uncanny accuracy.—
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There’s something uncanny about this still and stunning portrait of a twenty-one-year-old Taylor Swift, shot by Katy Grannan for Lizzie Widdicombe’s Profile of the singer, in 2011.—
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Then there was the play that made many scratch their heads — the one when the Carolina Panthers’ game-tying field goal was blocked only for an esoteric NFL rule to award the Panthers with the ball, a new set of downs and great field position.—
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The ideological provocations of Madonna (Ciccone) iconography and the esoteric execution of Björk songs meet (again) in Lux’s palette of fixations.—
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Miami has rekindled memories of its 2001 national championship team behind a defense that went from porous to nearly impenetrable in its first season under coordinator Corey Hetherman.—
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Miami has rekindled memories of its 2001 national championship team behind a defense that went from porous to nearly impenetrable in its first season under coordinator Corey Hetherman.—
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Gardenia x daruma is an obscure dwarf hybrid that is hardy down to 20 degrees and, planted on its own, grows no more than three feet tall with small flowers and leaves.—
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Advertisement The Epstein case is yet another reminder of how power can both obscure harm and suppress the voices of survivors.—
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“Incomprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomprehensible. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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