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Incomprehensible

//ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite. literary

    "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"

Adjective
  1. 1
    difficult to understand wordnet
  2. 2
    incapable of being explained or accounted for wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Anything that is beyond understanding.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.

Etymology 2

From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehensibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.

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