incomprehensible
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *ən- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti Proto-Italic *hendō Proto-Italic *praiɣendō Latin prehendō Latin comprehendō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin comprehēnsibilis Latin incomprehēnsibilisbor. Middle French incomprehensibleder. English incomprehensible From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehēnsibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.
- derived from incomprehēnsibilis
- derived from incomprehensible
Definitions
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
- 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.
- In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
- 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.'
Which cannot be contained
Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite.
Anything that is beyond understanding.
The neighborhood
- synonymfathomless
- synonymunfathomable
- synonymunintelligible
- synonymabstruse
- synonymChinese
- synonymdense
- synonymenigmatic
- synonymGreek
- synonyminapprehensible
- synonymincognizable
- synonymincomprehensible
- synonymineffable
- antonymcomprehensible
- antonymunderstandable
- neighborincomprehension
- neighboropaque
- neighborturbid
- neighborit's all Chinese to me
- neighborit's all Greek to me
- neighborconfusing
- neighborindescribable
- neighbordifficult
- neighborarcane
- neighborgnomic
- neighborvague
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at incomprehensible. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at incomprehensible. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at incomprehensible
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA